If you were in outer space (just your body) would you implode or explode?

Question

If I must give an example:
You somehow abandoned the space ship that you traveled on. (opened the wrong door, etc.)

Answer 1

Assuming you could suddenly be thrust into the vacuum of space without a space suit, your blood would boil.

The process wouldn't take long, just a few seconds. So, although it sounds like it would be painful, that pain wouldn't last long. Cell walls of all your tissues would rupture, which in a sense, is like billions of tiny explosions. But your body as a whole would not explode or implode.

You would become unconscious and life functions would cease immediately... in seconds. Your body would just float, a lifeless bag of protoplasm, held together by a feeble bag of damaged skin. Cool huh?

Answer 2

If you were in outer space, you wouldn't explode or implode. Internally, your tissues would rupture and you would die in about 80 seconds, but you wouldn't explode and leak guts all over. The difference in pressures between Earth's atmosphere and space are not high enough to force your body to explode. Now here's the technical explanation. 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

Without the protection of a space suit, if we are suddenly thrown into outer space, we will explode. The internal pressure has no external pressure to balance and thus the body explodes.

Answer 4

how can i get there first?