In Space, would you exlode or implode?

Question

If a person was in space and took off his/her space suit, would the person explode or implode?

Let me know your answer and you theory. Please be quick-it's for my students!

Thanks

Answer 1

Neither. The person would die from lack of air, and if they could be brought inside within a few seconds they could even survive. They would probably get decompression sickness, or the bends, but could survive. It is just a popular myth that a body would explode like a popping balloon. Some people have been accidentally exposed to a vacuum or near vacuum, in test chamber accidents or high altitude flight, and they survived.

Answer 2

The most important thing to do if you are exposed to a vacum like in space is to exhale all the air from your lungs beforehand as it would expand and rupture your lungs once you entered the vacum.

In the vaguest of senses, you would explode to answer your question, but only your lungs if they had air in them. You could easily survive a very short trip into space, but you would probably get a pretty high dose of radiation and moving back into a pressurized environment like a space station or even the Earth would not be fun, but you would survive.

Answer 3

well, your body exerts a pressure outwards, but it's not enough to literally "explode".... your blood & fluids would eventually boil, and prolly exit through the nose & mouth. It wouldn't be pretty.

Answer 4

I think you'd explode because there is no air and no pressure in space.

Answer 5

A person would explode without a space suit because it is gravity that holds our bodies together. In space there is zero gravity so, we would basically be pulled apart at the atomic level. Gross!

Answer 6

explode. space is like a vacume

Answer 7

the person will explode because there are no presure.

Answer 8

Neither. You would rapidly dessicate as liquids boiled off, but I'm reasonably sure your dried mummified remains would be recognizably human for geological ages.