YOU KNOW LIKE IF YOU WERE IN A SPACE SUITE ON THE SHUTTLE AND YOU DRIFTED OFF INTO SPACE AND DIED WOULD YOU ROT!
2007-11-22 04:56:35 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
My ex-wife says I can rot in space.
2007-11-22 15:30:58 · answer #1 · answered by Eratosthenes 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tut has never been in a vacuum Oscar.
Your body would rot until the oxygen left in your suit or shuttle ran out, also as has been mentioned, the bacteria in the body would carry on with the rotting process, some of the bacteria don't even need oxygen.
2007-11-22 09:22:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even if you were in a space suit It would depend on where you were floating in space.
If you were in orbit around the Earth or moon, you would be subjected to periodical extremes of cold and then heat as the sun rose and fell behind the planet.
When faced with the sun in space you would not be shielded from it's radiation. This intense radiation would kill any bacteria in your body/suit thus sterilising you. You would therefore NOT rot.
If you were floating dead in a shielded shuttle, you might rot, until all the oxygen was used up and then all the bacteria died too.
2007-11-22 06:17:43 · answer #3 · answered by Greg K 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, and in fact when bodies rot on Earth it is caused mainly by the bacteria already living inside them before they died.
2007-11-22 05:05:44 · answer #4 · answered by grayure 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes in a space suit
2007-11-22 05:04:18 · answer #5 · answered by .BiteMe 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In a space suit yes.
Without a suit no.
2007-11-22 05:00:11 · answer #6 · answered by Jason 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Dead inside a fully functional space suit? yes.
2007-11-22 04:59:23 · answer #7 · answered by Raymond 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No. You get sort of freeze-dried. Assuming you have no space suit that is.
2007-11-22 07:05:18 · answer #8 · answered by B. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes
If you didn't have a space suit, you would slowly freeze.
2007-11-22 05:06:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You can't rot without oxygen so no.
2007-11-22 05:00:23 · answer #10 · answered by coconut 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋