When you take off your space suit in space, what happens?

Question

Do you combust or do you burn up?

Answer 1

you don't do that.
seriously ... all the air is sucked out of your lungs and you may bleed and suffocate at the same time.
that's why you don't want to do that.
see the movie 2001.

Answer 2

To experience the vacuum is to die, but not quite in the grisly manner portrayed in the movies Total Recall and Outland. The truth of the matter seems to be closer to what Stanley Kubrik had in mind in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

According to the 1966 edition of the McGraw/Hill Encyclopedia of Space, when animals are subjected to explosive decompression to a vacuum-like state, they do not suddenly balloon-up or have their eyes pop out of their heads. It is, in fact, virtually impossible to compress or expand organic tissues in this way. Instead, death arises from the response of the free gasses trapped within the tissues.

If decompression takes 1/2 second or longer, even lung tissue remains intact. When the ambient pressure falls below 47 mm of mercury (similar to the pressure at the surface of Mars), the water inside all tissues passes into a vapor state beginning at the skin surface. This causes the collapse of surface cells and the loss of huge amounts of body heat via evaporation. After six seconds, the process of cell collapse involves the heart and lungs causing circulatory interruption, followed by acute anoxia, convulsions and the relaxation of the bowel muscles. After 15 seconds, mental confusion sets-in, and after 20 seconds you become unconscious. You can survive this for about 80 seconds if a pressure higher than about 47 mm mercury is then reestablished, otherwise, you turn into freeze-dried dead meat on a stick.

Answer 3

in the event that they held their breath as they decompressed their lungs might go through sever harm because of stress distinction, yet whilst they exhaled as they decompressed they could be high quality for the few seconds previously their techniques grew to alter into disadvantaged of oxygen. None of those solutions are completely the terrific option. you need to nevertheless pass for the constrained time you have been wakeful, and whilst your inner stress is extra effective than your ecosystem the version is so so super that your physique might explode, worst case concern is you will possibly adventure some undesirable swelling. You maximum genuinely does not implode.

Answer 4

You can die one of a few different ways.
1. Explosion decompression - the pressure inside your body is much higher than in space (no air, no pressure) so you could explode.
2. Hemorrhaging - your blood pressure is higher than outside, so you may rupture a few blood vessels and bleed to death
3. Suffocation - no air, no breathing

I don't think you'd live long enough from these causes to freeze to death. And you'd only burn up if you entered a planet's atmosphere, and again you'd be dead before you vaporize.

My suggestion - keep the suit on, even if its completely out of style.

Answer 5

All moisture on your skin, in your eyes, mouth etc would boil off immediately. The moisture inside your pours, follicles etc will boil off. The ultraviolet rays, x-rays, microwaves etc will burn your skin and cook you inside.
Because of how close we are to the sun, the part of you that faces the sun will receive a blast of heat that is well above boiling.
And one more little thing; With no air, you will suffocate in three seconds.

Answer 6

Atmosperic pressure is what stops water and other fluids from boiling.

If you removed that pressure, the fluids in your body would boil and the gases would seek to equalize the pressure. Your veins would burst and the resulting blood loss would be enough to kill you within seconds. You probably wouldn't have time to suffocate.

The pure shock might even kill you.

:D

Answer 7

Number of things happen when you do that....

All air in any little cavity in your body escape all at once. Your lung will collapse and capilaries in lung will burst. Oxygen in your blood will bubble up and escape. (boiling due to zero pressure, not temperature)

Intense radiation will kill your cells and extreme cold will freeze your body, but, by then you are dead for a while so you won't feel a thing.

In short, you die....

Answer 8

You don't combust or burn up, but because there won't be any atmospheric pressure on you, your body will explode. Of course, no one has ever tried it yet, so its all really still theory lol.

Answer 9

You wouldn't explode, although rapid depressurization could cause a few organs to rupture (such as your lungs while attempting to hold your breath).

The complete lack of air woud cause asphyxiation.

Exposure to solar radiation could cause serious damage, but sunburn and cancer won't matter much if you suffocate.

Answer 10

Exposure to vacuum causes no immediate injury. You do not explode. Your blood does not boil. You do not freeze. You do not instantly lose consciousness.
You may get sunburned very quickly.
May take up to a minute to lose consciousness (depending on endurance) and two to die.

Answer 11

You die. Your body explodes instantly becsue of the lack of air pressure in space.