It was just a morbid thought about a spaceship imploding and releasing the astronauts' bodies. The few that wouldn't be pulled down to Earth and burned up in re-entry, what would happen to those? I figured they wouldn't decompose(seeing as there's no bacteria in space) but I just want the opinion of more knowledgeable people.
2007-10-16 12:33:31 · 9 answers · asked by ironsheep 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The short and simple answer is no. If a person died in space, and didn't suffer explosive decompression, they would freeze solid.... and if they never got close enough to a sun, would likely remain a solid specimens for all eternity. Of course, they would likely end up as part of a larger body, moon or asteroid or like you suggested, burn up upon entry into the atmosphere of any planet they would encounter. Another possibility would be that eventually, over years, a body could become the center of a planetoids attracting micro-meteors over many many Milena.
2007-10-16 13:50:19 · answer #1 · answered by tantamount_to_anarchy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do Bodies Decompose In Space
2017-01-15 07:06:05 · answer #2 · answered by ayyad 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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It was just a morbid thought about a spaceship imploding and releasing the astronauts' bodies. The few that wouldn't be pulled down to Earth and burned up in re-entry, what would happen to those? I figured they wouldn't decompose(seeing as there's no bacteria in space) but I just...
2015-08-14 00:32:07 · answer #3 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is true that bacteria exists in the human body, but space does not only have bitter cold, it has vapourizing heat, and it is a certainty that any body in space would be rotating, exposing all sides to both extreme conditions, bacteria is susceptible to heat, that is how we pasteurize food on Earth, in my opinion a body would exist in space for an incredible length of time.
2007-10-16 13:08:43 · answer #4 · answered by johnandeileen2000 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I don't think so.
There are no bacterias in space, so they wouldn't "eat", let's say, a sandwich left by an astronaut.
Even if the sandwich had bacteria, the extreme heat/cold from outer space wouldn't allow them to reproduce, or they could also die.
Innorganic bodies might change state, from solid to liquid, etc, due to the high temperatures or the extreme cold, but only that.
2007-10-16 13:14:15 · answer #5 · answered by Joseph Clemens 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No, they don't. Instead, the cold would preserve the flesh - you know how scientists found Otzi the Iceman in the Alps because he was frozen solid? It'd be like that, only without the variables that snow on Earth can give. They'd essentially be mummified as every liquid in the body freezes to a solid.
2007-10-17 05:16:03 · answer #6 · answered by ryttu3k 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
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accordint to newtons fist law, the body will just keep falling untill it gets pulled into another planet or star by its gravity....or another solid object
2016-04-06 23:14:52 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THE BACTERIA NEEDED FOR DECOMPOSITION EXISTS IN THE HUMAN BODY, BUT THE PROCESS WOULD BE HALTED BY THE EXTREME COLD OF SPACE.
2007-10-16 12:40:24 · answer #8 · answered by Loren S 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I read somewhere that it is like freeze drying flesh.
2007-10-16 14:02:50 · answer #9 · answered by B. 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it would break down due to other things im sure, mostly radiation.
2007-10-16 12:36:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋