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Originally Posted by Anthony
If you do the math for how long it takes a habitat to lose enough pressure to worry about, it turns out any disaster large enough to actually require things like rescue balls probably kills everyone inside the habitat before they have the chance to use the rescue balls, so I suspect emergency training focuses heavily on "here's how you deploy a portable patch", not anything directly related to pressure suits.
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Yeah. Providing rescue balls in case of an air leak would be like providing a fire proximity suit with SCBA in every bedroom in case of a house fire. Pressure-and-O₂ alarm and a set of patches would be cheaper and actually useful, but in practice far from everyone has a smoke alarm and fire extinguisher.