can you smoke in space.?

Question

how does a flame react in space ,can u smoke ciggerettes or wat bout rolling a joint would it all float away or would it all sit there nice till u were ready to roll...this a serious question ..just curiousity but would like real answer...no silly ones please

Answer 1

If you have oxygen, you can have flame. A lighter contains its own supply of fuel to burn whether its butane or naptholene or sulpher and wood, so lighting a fire is no problem on board the space shuttle for example. The problem is that a fire consumes oxygen, so you wouldn't want to burn one for long since you need the oxygen to breathe. In space you have to either bring oxygen with you or create it in a chemical reaction. As far as smoking goes, yeah, you could smoke on board the space shuttle, but you would be inflicting your second hand smoke on everyone else onboard. You would have to bring your doobies with you pre-rolled though... think about what a pain it would be to try and roll a fatty in micro Gravity!!

Answer 2

Can You Smoke In Space

Answer 3

Of course you can't smoke in the vacuum of space as their is no air to burn or suck in. On a pressurized environment like that in a space suit, space ship, or space station there can be air to breathe and burn, but that air is maintained using complex filtration systems that would no doubt have trouble processing a lot of smoke. If you tried it on the ISS you would probably set off a lot of loud alarms and everyone would think its a fire. That plus the fact any weed would have to be sneaked pass the security of a space agency means no on will be toking a Mary Jane in space for a long time.

Answer 4

flames without gravity are sphere shaped.

flames in space vacuum doesn't exists, flames are just a reaction between something that can be oxydized and oxygen (but not always, can also be fluorine)

So no air no smoking, and without gravity will be a real mess to roll a cigarette, everthing will just float away.

And it's really impossible to smoke with a space suit.
Quit smoking will be better if you are planning to go into space, LOL

Answer 5

In order to smoke in space you would have to be wearing a space suit with a oxygen supply. As soon as you lite up and took your first puff, the oxygen would ignite violently and burn your face off, thus making the whole experience much less gratifying.

Answer 6

First fire requires oxygen to burn so you could not light your weed.
If you took it out of your space suit there would be no air to suck through it.
If the weed was all dry it would probably float away.
You are better to stay away from outer space or quit smoking!!

Answer 7

There is no air in space. How will you smoke. ?

Answer 8

well its interesting..but in regards to smoking in a pure oxygen atmosphere...

Edited: boy is my face red! the last time they used pure 100% oxygen atmosphere at 5 pounds per square inch in the space program was during the Apollo program. The shuttle's atmosphere is a 21 percent oxygen, 79 percent nitrogen at 14.7 pounds per square inch normal atmosphere just like its found on earth: it looks like you can smoke you tail end off all you want, and not really worry about the fire safety aspects. and yes, you are going to have second hand smoke problems. but if you did try this in a pure oxygen atmosphere like on the Apollo capsule:.

1. oxygen is an oxidizer. it supports the combustion of an item, but in itself does not burn. it just increases the potential for a really bad thing to happen, like the Apollo one fire. They had a pure oxygen atmosphere at almost 20 pounds per square inch (they had to start at 14.7 pounds because they were at normal atmospheric pressure on the pad) and it just took one theoretical spark on something combustible to set the interior on fire. i actually saw what happened to a welder who was cooling himself down one hot day at Ingalls shipbuilding with an oxygen line. he had saturated the small well compartment he was in with oxygen and then lit a cigarette. a spark fell to his clothes which burst into flame. once the clothes fire reached a certain temperature, it set the fat in the mans skin ablaze. the oxygen hose still supplied oxygen to the room and supported the mans combustion. what was five feet five inches and 145 pounds going into the room combusted down to something like 20 inches long and about 10 pounds in weight. the odd thing was there wasn't any till-tell smoke or smell to give it away early in the process: there was this strange white like glow but that was about all until he was mostly gone. i know because we had to help the safety crew remove the body. simply strange.

2. smoke. to produce smoke requires that something be incompletely combusted to produce a residue of visible particles in the air. if you lit your cigarette in a pure oxygen atmosphere, and got past the point of igniting anything else in the process, there's a good chance all you are going to inhale is a large amount of super heated gas but no actual smoke: it isn't going to be as satisfying at all. not to mention its going to burn really really fast.

Id say learn to use smokeless tobacco if there's any point for nicotine in space. that or a nicotine patch or gum.

Answer 9

ask bob marley or snoop dogg! They smoked so much they were often out of this world!

Answer 10

combustion cant take place w/o oxygen