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Source: sci-fi short story, "A Pailful of Air".
I did not expect to see that referenced today. It seems like pretty obscure old sci-fi to me, but I guess I found it once somehow.
I should do napkin calculations on how many blankets they'd actually need to get an airtight-ish space at breathable pressure.
Edit:
Honestly just an airlock shouldn't have been too hard, seeing as leaking atmosphere was no issue. Seal it up, crack a little valve on the side you're going towards. Every blanket scheme I can think of is just a shittier version of that.
Just as a sealant for structural gaps I imagine blankets would be impermeable with a bit of coal tar added, but maybe I can do some math for unimproved blankets.
The story actually specifies 30 blankets, on a double-check. There's science now known to be bad elsewhere, but it's all excusable considering when the story was written. Ditto for the weird gender dynamics.
Oh man I haven’t thought about that story in ages!
There was a fantastic radio adaptation of it in the 1950s, can't remember which show.