i wonder what happens to our body if you go out into the space without any special suit?

Question

i know we will die eventually but how and why?

Answer 1

Here you go: http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/scienceques2004/20041105.htm

Answer 2

One thing is for sure... in the vacuum of space.. the air in your lungs would be forced out of your body. and No you wont be able to hold your breath. the vacuum is so great that the lungs will simply be void of all the air.

If you are exposed to the sun, your flesh will probably get an instant burn like a really really really bad sunburn. Just think of this the temperature on the moon during the day is over 100 degrees celsius. so your basically cookin yourself.

If you were on the dark side of the moon..youll freeze... the temp is more than NEGATIVE 170 degrees celsius. so your a popsicle. it depends on how close to the sun you are.

As far as imploding or exploding... basically.. your guts will come out through your mouth, eyes, ears, and behind. youll be turned inside out almost.

Answer 3

You would die a gruesome and painfull death. First, the air in your lungs would escape violently. Think enormous, huge burping here. You would start to drown due the lack of oxygen. Then the blood in your body would start to boil and the gasses therein would try to escape in any way possible. You would probably at this point have a stroke, due to the blood vessels in your brain starting to pop like water balloons. This is where you body would explode. Probably the eyes would be the first to go. All htat would be left is a floating mass of flesh and bones. And DNA profiling would be the only way to identify the body.

Answer 4

There seems to be a lot of misconceptions about this, but being in a low pressure environment will not result in immediate death from explosion or implosion. There have already been several incidents of humans (and animals) being subjected to these pressures.

While the vacuum does present your greatest threat you will still survive for a few minutes, although you will pass out sooner from a lack of oxygen to the brain. Permanent damage wouldn't result until 30 seconds or so, and the first thing to go might be your eardrum because it's only about as thick as a piece of paper.

Answer 5

The spacesuits astronauts wear protect them in two major ways: First they are pressurized so the environment inside the suit is similar to earth's and second, they shield them from radiation.

If a person were to go in space without this suit, every cell in their body would explode because the pressure on the inside of every cell wall is greater than the zero-pressure in space. If that wasn't enough, you'd sizzle from the sun's radiation.

So don't forget your suit, next time you go for a space walk! :-)

Answer 6

You certainly would not explode. A person could take their helmet of in space and survive for a couple of seconds. The persons blood would start to boil inside due to the lack of pressure. In 1960 a man by the name of Joe Kissinger was technically the first man in space. He traveled to an altitude of 103,000 ft or around 31km in a helium balloon. He had to wear a pressure suit because of the lack of pressure and oxygen at that height. At 50,000ft one of his gloves on his suit sprung a leak. What this meant was that the blood in his body would start to pool in his hand. He didnt tell his flight sergeon because he was scared that he may make him abort the flight.

He reached his altitude right on the edge of space. He stayed there for 11 minutes then returned to earth. He jumped. This is all on film. He fell for 4 minutes at the speed of sound, but because there was no air it was done in complete silence. There was no ruffling of the material and he said that he thought he was suppended in space.

Answer 7

Your body would explode INSTANTLY.

Of course, if you wanted to GET to outer space without a special suit, that would be a different story. Then you'd burn to ash in the atmosphere before you ever got high enough up to explode.

Answer 8

You would not explode! It is I think -600 and something degrees F. You would die immediately and you would freeze to a solid, rock like, way, youface would turn dark blue and crack. It's as if the life was sucked right out of you just like that. Everything would condense, not expand. Everything condenses and lungs drop and tissue will remain intact for a while, but you would be dead by then.

Answer 9

Since our body is conditioned to an amospheric pressure of 32 inches per square inch, it will enlarge like a balloon as we rise up and go beyond he earth's atmoshere as the presssue wouls be gradually reducing as we rise and aou internal pressure in the blood and the gaseous contents of our body will release the pressure due o the exteernal pressure getting reduces . At one point it will bursat and shatere in to smithereens . We won't be feeling it as we would have freezed to death by the time we approach the end of the atmosphere due to the fall of temperature in the space hundreds of degrees below the zeero degree.

Answer 10

Hi. You would not explode, but the water in your body would boil due to the reduced pressure. Death would come from lack of oxygen to the brain, as in most death.

Answer 11

Every gas molecule in your body would very roodly try to escape your body at the exact same time, making for a very painful death by explosion.