2006-09-28 08:07:30 · 18 answers · asked by alex b 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
If you were suddenly put from your suit / capsule into space and 'decompressed' - you would NOT explode...just swell up & ooze fluids.
Initially excrutiating pain caused by expanding oxygen & CO2 bursting blood vessels throughout your entire body - it's not the fluid that expands (it cannot be compressed - basic hydraulics), it's the saturated gasses in your blood and other bodily fluids that will form bubbles - it will be a VERY, VERY severe case of 'the bends'!
It will still take a fair amount of time for the body to chill properly as even though the vacuum of space if cold - there isn't anything such as air or water to conduct the heat away rapidly - heat loss would be through 'radiated heat' NOT conduction or convection.
So I'd say - you'd asphyxiate as you suffer an agonising couple of minutes before your brain turns to a bleeding pulp....then you'd freeze.
Excellent question!!
2006-09-28 09:14:50 · answer #1 · answered by creviazuk 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You would partly explode, or at least swell up rather uncomfortably, right away; only those parts that contain gases would be affected. How quickly you would freeze would depend on how near to the sun (or other star) you were, in fact if you were close enough vapourisation would be more of a concern than freezing.
2006-09-28 08:15:24 · answer #2 · answered by Sangmo 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Explode.
2006-09-28 08:12:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You would immediatly explode. The reason for this is because all humans have blood pressure. The atmospheric pressure that is constantly exerted on us prevents us from exploding.
In space, there is no air or pressure, therefore the pressure of our body is greater than space, and therefore we would explode first, We would then immediatly freeze.
2006-09-28 08:21:17 · answer #4 · answered by Mr curious 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Explode.
2006-09-28 08:18:54 · answer #5 · answered by Iron Man 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Suppose there are three points x, y and z arranged in the circumference of a circle representing the 3 coordinates of Y. Apart from directional force, what is the force that must be applied for a zero-weight particle, to "cross" from point to the other a) inside the circle, with the shortest possible path
b) through the circumference, i.e., "track" a "footprint" of an already existing path through the circumference of the circle itself?
2006-09-28 08:18:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
freeze, you wouldn't explode but swell up
2006-09-29 06:26:14 · answer #7 · answered by helenagilchrist@btinternet.com 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
explode
2006-09-28 08:15:00 · answer #8 · answered by Ben H 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Alex you keep asking the same question all the time.
2006-10-01 03:51:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
u would probably explode as there is no atmospheric pressure in the space.......ur inner and outer balance would be disturbed as far.....
2006-09-28 08:27:30 · answer #10 · answered by waleed_mabood14 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋