Alright, i know there would be no oxygen in space, but what would happen if your took your space helmet off? how would trying to breath feel? Would you gasp for air? would you feel anything in your lungs? or would it feel like a plastic bag was put over your head?
2007-05-02 02:56:09 · 22 answers · asked by Big V 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Actually, there are a lot of correct answers here, but the problem is that they are only partially correct. The people who claim that you would freeze solid are correct. The people who claim that all of the liquids in your body would boil are also correct. The thing that is really difficult to wrap your head around is the fact that both events would occur simultaneously.
The conditions you described, really cold (almost absolute zero) and virtually no pressure are the correct conditions for the "Triple Point" (see the wikipedia link below) at which water and other elements and compounds that make up the human body can exist in all three phases (liquid, solid and gas) simultaneously.
While death would likely be very fast it would also very likely be the most gruesome 15 seconds of your existence.
2007-05-02 06:25:27 · answer #1 · answered by Tippy the Turtle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
most likely as space is a vacuum (the air pressure is 0 or less) the air would be sucked out of your lungs as the air in your lungs is at a higher pressure than the surounding space. The laws of nature show us that everything tries to return to a state of equilibrium and so this difference of air presure will be equalised. As for a gasping for air - you just wouldnt be able to inflate your lungs also your blood would be drawn into your lungs due to the lowered air presure and it would also be sucked out of you. This lack of air and oxygen starvation to the brain would kill you first not the loss of blood.
2007-05-02 03:33:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The vacuum of space would suck all air out of your lungs and you would asphyxiate, die from lack of oxygen. Probably it wouldn't feel very nice... and it would be very cold. I don't know how long you'd have to live or get the helmet back on, maybe a matter of thirty seconds? Maybe less, and even if you did, both lungs would probably be collapsed and unable to function again without emergency medical aid.
Good luck, space cadet!
2007-05-02 03:04:45 · answer #3 · answered by Buzzard 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The intense cold (or heat, or both at the same time) would kill you before you had to worry about the lack of pressure sucking the air out of your lungs. You want to know something what it would feel like? try turning on a vacuum cleaner and putting the nozzle near (not over as it would probably kill you) your mouth and try to breathe as the suction rips the air away from you.
2007-05-02 03:06:29 · answer #4 · answered by kerfitz 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Presumably it would be like drowning or suffocating. There would be no air and you would pop your clogs. The space suit would be pressurised and a sudden breach of the seal would result in all the oxygen disappearing in an instant. Far better to stay down here on Earth and inhale lung fulls of CO2
2007-05-02 03:02:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your lungs would actually feel like they were trying to explode as the air tried to escape. The near vacuum of space is much lower pressure than the pressure in your body, so everything (blood, air) would try to escape into space with catastrophic consequences for your body...oh, and your blood would literally boil in the low pressure. I suspect it'd be a very painful, but very quick way to die...I wouldn't advise it!
2007-05-02 03:01:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
First of all the air would be sucked out of your lungs. Then the sweat coming out of your skin would freeze and you would get very cold very quickly. I'm not sure but I think your eyes would freeze next, then the rest of your body.
In the instants this is happening it would probably feel like you have had all the wind knocked out of you and you wouldn't be able to breath anything in. Adding that to the excruciating pain from freezing to death makes this very inpleasant.
in short keep your helmet on.
2007-05-02 03:06:40 · answer #7 · answered by Mike 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you simply opened the door of your space capsule:
Your lungs and many other organs would simply explode due to the variance in pressure. You would also freeze almost instantly at absolute zero (no that is not a new light vodka). Either scenario is unpleasant at least.
2007-05-02 05:25:57 · answer #8 · answered by kathbiralibaby 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
without an attachment to the area station he/she could drift aimlessly in area (till they have been close to a black hollow wherein case they had be sucked into and disappear!). As for being and not utilising a spacesuit they had be S.O.L. considering they had suffocate through loss of oxygen and reckoning on the area they had the two burn or freeze to boot.
2016-10-14 08:31:12 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You would have very little time to experience anything. Your blood would boil and at the same time you would explode. At sea level their is about 14 pounds a square inch of pressure holding us together. In space there is none and so.........it would all get a bit messy.
2007-05-02 03:03:48 · answer #10 · answered by Reg Tedious 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋