passage: Hotel California Fact : Sound is a vibration .
  Sound travels as a mechanical wave through a medium , and in space , there is no medium .
  So when my shuttle malfunctioned and the airlocks did n't keep the air in , I heard nothing .
  After the first whoosh of the air being sucked away , there was lightning , but no thunder .
  Eyes bulging in panic , but no screams .
  Quiet and peaceful , right ?
  Such a relief to never again hear my crewmate Jesse natter about his girl back on Earth and that all - expenses - paid vacation - for - two she won last time he was on leave .
  I swore , if I ever had to see a photo of him in a skimpy bathing suit again , giving the camera a cheesy thumbs - up from a lounge chair on one of those white sandy beaches , I 'd kiss a monkey .
  Metaphorically , of course .
  Fact : If , before all the air is sucked out of the ship , a person is so lucky to have stuffed him or herself into a space suit , that person has less than twenty - four hours to live .
  This is more than the person would have sans space suit .
  Me , I found a space suit , but it was statistically unlikely that I , and whomever else has followed suit ( pun intended ) , would manage to repair our ship before the less - than - twenty - four hours are up ; yes , studies have been done .
  So , twenty - four hours .
  Give or take .
  About the time I was composing my last words in my head , trying not to think too much about what suffocating felt like , that 's when I heard a bell .
query_and_answer: Would the protagonist actually kiss a monkey ? || Only if he ever had to see another photo of his crewmate and just metaphorically
evidences: I swore , if I ever had to see a photo of him in a skimpy bathing suit again , giving the camera a cheesy thumbs - up from a lounge chair on one of those white sandy beaches , I 'd kiss a monkey . Metaphorically , of course .