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However, in a vacuum, while there’s no oxygen for your lungs to absorb, Co2 can outgass through the lungs, I think (I know oxygen can, so it goes to reason that Co2 can as well), so Co2 wouldn’t build up in your bloodstream creating the extreme panic/sense of suffocation :q
You would, though, still of course pass out and all as per usual…
Also, Fluttershy runs into the famed, deep Desmond the Moon Bear conundrum.
“…How did I get here?”
(Probably because someone didn’t add struts. Even Kerbals wear launch/entry suits, though!)
@Crayv
“And there’s no - FWOOSH”
You lip “air”, but no sound comes out XD
@Over4000
Jebediah is absolutely fearless, but the one thing that will terrify him… Is if you tell him you didn’t add struts.
Also, try flying that monster in realism overhaul, foo. Or with a space program where you actually have to pay for the thing XD
Also, that’s no biggie all the way up to Duna… The EVA jetpack has enough thrust to fly up to the hatch :q
Ever walk outside and feel the sun’s heat as hot even though the air is cold? Yeah.
Technically, any heat we feel from the sun is being conducted by the air.
Actually, temperature is a bit of a funny concept in space. Here on Earth, we can measure the temperature of the air, and we call that “the temperature.” In space, there is no air, though…
To understand what’d happen in space, needs some explanation:
First, heat transfers in 2 fundamental ways;
(Most will say convection is a third, but that’s kind of fundamentally a subset of conduction, and not too important for our discussion here)
Radiation is the warmth you feel from the sun, or from near a fire, or from near a burner/stove. Conduction is your warm clothes right out of the drier, or cold or hot air. It transfers heat, and tries to bring the two things into equilibrium. On Earth, your body won’t do much to warm up the entire atmosphere, so obviously conduction with air is just going to try to bring your body to air temperature.
Well, your body is constantly producing heat, and it actually relies quite heavily on air to cool it off (so 70F air feels comfortable to a 98.6F body temperature).
Second, water boils in a vacuum: it requires air pressure to keep it liquid. So anywhere above freezing temperature, in space, it will sublimate directly into a gas, and if it’s a liquid, it will boil, and as it does so, it carries heat away.
So thrown in a vacuum, first off, the oil on your skin and saliva in your mouth will boil off, cooling you off. This might make you kind of cold. Don’t hold your breath - if you try to, then the air exploding out of your lungs could cause them to collapse. So breathe out to prevent that so that rescue is at least possible.
(There’s a common misconception that your blood would boil - I’ve even seen some astronauts incorrectly write this. In reality, though, your skin has enough structural strength to keep pressure inside your veins high enough to keep the nitrogen from boiling out of solution)
Yes, the lack of ozone blocking UV rays mean some really nasty sunburns. But that won’t be such a big deal - you’ll suffocate first. Normally choking out takes 30-60 seconds, but in this case, with a complete lack of air, instead of oxygen absorbing into the lungs, or nothing crossing the lung-air barrier, oxygen will actually flow out, so it’ll only take about 15 to 20 seconds to pass out.
Brain damage and death roll in at a few minutes. Nobody really knows exactly where, and it probably depends a lot on the individuals’ health, anyways.
If the body could keep producing heat, then it’d overheat for lack of air cooling it off. But your body would shutdown and die rather quickly, so then it’d take many hours, but it’d eventually begin to freeze.
(Also, sorry if something’s terribly incoherent, here. I’m typing as I’m talking on Skype, so I may have derped in writing this)
500 years later we’ll still be using duct tape
*Actually, in real-life space, they use actual duct tape. All manned spacecraft carry it to secure things in the cabin, and on Apollo 16, they had to use ordinary duct tape to fix the lunar rover. Even in the virtually non-existant atmosphere and extreme temperatures, it still worked perfectly.
Though she should be wearing a launch and entry suit to avoid this kind of thing no matter what :q
Lies, damned lies.
What’s the difference?
We’ll need about 50 boosters and 500 struts pronto.
What is this now? Derpy Space Program?
You better hurry…
Genius.
Damn, I must call Derpy back!
What if she needs more struts… AND boosters!?
PP: Air?
TS: there’s no air in space
PP: there’s an air & space museum