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Who will teach Stevie?! wrote: I don't think Steven can breath in space OR water. If you noticed in Space Race the ship was burning up in the atmosphere and the parachute still worked, meaning they were still in the earth's atmosphere and hadn't even got to space yet(Hence why Pearl was winging it, as the ship would stop falling to pieces if they got to zero-g).

And in Ocean Gen, the water FELL. Falling means it still needs gravity. On top of that, water would freeze if they were in space. That's what I argued in the trivia section of ocean gem as well, visually the water elevator was well above in the atmosphere that gravity should have little to no effect but the water and Steven began to fall at fast speeds when the elevator collapsed. There is actually no exact boundary at which the earth's atmosphere ends and space begins, so air could still be at that height, albeit very thin.

And Ocean Gem does show Steven can survive in the vaccuum of space, as at the tip of mt. everest (8,848m), the air is so thin, that if you do not have anything to aid you in breathing (e.g. oxygen cannisters, or the like) you would probably die of suffocation as it is well above the "Danger Zone" (8,000m) at which is the maximum height a human can breath naturally (somewhat) and the tower was well beyond the height of mt everest.