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Less than 4 milliseconds. They didn’t feel a thing.
To add context here, it takes your brain somewhere around 100ms to detect and then another 250 to process pain. So 4ms is not only fast, it's absurdly fast.
To get a sense of how fast it is, go ahead and stub your toe, the time it took to feel it is 100 times longer.
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/26/42/10879
I just take solace in the fact that they probably just snapped out of existence instead of having to slowly die in a dark tube over a few days.
And because what failed was the carbon fibre composite pressure vessel, it probably didn't even give any warnings to make them worried. It would be like squeezing a glass bottle, everything will be perfectly fine until it just instantly shatters.
Sometimes glass will give a 'click' as a crack starts. Not sure about carbon fibre though.