If I recall correctly, “hacking” as a term comes from 1960s MIT Engineering student slang for pulling off a brilliant prank or clever gimmick. When MIT got the TX-0 mainframe, a group of engineering students began playing with it late at night, seeing just what they could program it to do and what kinds of ingenious “hacks” (pranks/clever jokes/ingenious stunts) they could do with it, thus becoming the first “hackers” in history. Since a number of those hackers were also phone phreakers, the term “hacker” changed meaning from someone who could pull off an ingenious stunt to someone who could find newer and better ways to make the phone system do interesting things, and from there to computer programmers with too high intelligence and too much time on their hands. Unfortunately, since some phreakers and hackers inadvertently caused damage to the phone system and primitive computer networks of the era, “hacker” gained the negative meaning of someone who deliberately damages or crashes a computer system thanks to the news media, who assumed deliberate malice on the part of the phreakers and hackers who caused disruption accidentally as part of their trying to see just how far they could push electronic systems.

Can’t take the (lack of) pressure?

If I remember correctly, this was also featured in one episode of Farscape, where Chrighton and d’Argo were exposed to hard vacuum briefly and survived, although poor John _did_ suffer a nasty case of the bends for a little while after returning to normal atmospheric pressure.

Let’s hear it for sci-fi writers that actually get these sorts of things right for a change! ^_^

Evil, evil, mind on fire!
Let’s get up in Madblood’s face!
I’ll use my transmogrifier,
Then invade his lunar base!

Dave’s now Helen, Helen’s Madblood,
Madblood’s coming for a date!
Love to mess with Lupin’s head, bud!
Laugh so hard I’ll ur-i-nate!

I’m sure forcing Dave to physically transform into and impersonate A) the lady he’s fallen completely hind-over-head for, B) the person who once left his head on a public bus, and C) his boss, and THEN be forced to seduce his own rival to said lady’s affections, would be the ultimate cosmic insult, an affront to his dignity so complete and total that his very soul would evapourate the moment he felt Madblood’s goatee tickle his soft bare chin.