When you go out in space it's COLD!
It's just that certain properties in the Sun, the rays. Mix with certain properties in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide and oxygen. And that creates the warmth.
Hermes
2007-04-11 02:51:25 · 19 answers · asked by Hermes Trismegistus 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
no i didnt know that
2007-04-11 02:54:44 · answer #1 · answered by [[~LilAngel~]] 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is absolutely false. It is not true at all.
The sun's warmth heats everything. In space, things that are in full light of the sun get very hot. Ignoring the problem of not being able to breathe, if you were outside a spacecraft, or on the surface of the moon, in the full glare of the sun, you would quickly boil.
However because there is no atmosphere to retain heat, things that are in shadow are extremely cold. So if you just moved into the shadow of your ship, you would freeze.
It has nothing whatsoever to do with the sun's rays reacting with oxygen and carbon dioxide.
2007-04-11 04:34:52 · answer #2 · answered by Daniel R 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I dont know about this, maybe you should educate me?
But I know about the Green House effect. Eventually when Sun rays hit the earth's ground, some of them are absorpbed by the ground, some are reflecte back up.
Of those rays that are reflected back up, some are strong enough to overcome the Ozone pressure & Clouds, and go back to space. Some are weak, and ... be reflected back to Earth again.
These rays create warmth.
2007-04-11 03:04:53 · answer #3 · answered by sunny 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought it was something to do with the air being thinner the higher out of the atmosphere you get. Something to do with the atoms bumping into each other and creating the friction that generates heat.
Something along those lines
2007-04-11 03:02:15 · answer #4 · answered by dave j 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The reason space is cold because there are no objects to absorb the heat so it's cold. Earth is warm because the sun's heat is absorbed by our atmosphere. Every wonder why our center is molten lava?
2007-04-11 02:55:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Um. If that was true, then it would be cold on the sunny side of the Moon (because the moon doesn't have an atmosphere).
And it isn't. In fact the temperature on the moon gets up to 123°C in daylight.
2007-04-11 02:56:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
that true heat needs a medium that can absorb it and distribute it to other mediums in a vacuum the energy of the sun has nothing to " react " with hence no heat (which is a form of kinetic enegry)
2007-04-11 03:32:40 · answer #7 · answered by tarek c 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
correction space is not cold, don't confuse heat and temperature, the sun heats the earth because it radiates heat and has been doing so for billions of years
2007-04-11 06:39:06 · answer #8 · answered by nurgle69 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes i did know that because it is only the infra red rays that heat the earth that can actually travel through space
2007-04-12 02:31:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
So if we were in the orbit of say Pluto, we'd still be sunning it up on a beach somewhere?
Doubt it.
2007-04-11 05:23:12 · answer #10 · answered by inselaffe67 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wonderful. Wish global warming would hurry up because it is snowing right now in Chicago.
2007-04-11 02:54:51 · answer #11 · answered by ropman1 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋