If it was possible?

Question

Lets pretend I had a button that you can push. When you push the button, you are zapped into space as you are when you pushed it, but only for 3 seconds and then you get zapped back on Earth. My question, if you were zapped into space for 3 sec and then zapped back to Earth, would you be dead? Or can you live in space for just a few seconds without no effects.

Answer 1

The link below is from a NASA website.

"If you don't try to hold your breath, exposure to space for half a minute or so is unlikely to produce permanent injury. Holding your breath is likely to damage your lungs, something scuba divers have to watch out for when ascending, and you'll have eardrum trouble if your Eustachian tubes are badly plugged up, but theory predicts -- and animal experiments confirm -- that otherwise, exposure to vacuum causes no immediate injury. You do not explode. Your blood does not boil. You do not freeze. You do not instantly lose consciousness."

Answer 2

You'd come back alive.
Your ears would be ringing from the sudden decompression and recompression (if you kept your mouth shut for the three seconds, you eardrum might be punctured).
You might have a sunburn on the exposed skin on the side of your body that was facing the sun (in three seconds, it would be a mild one).

Your eyes might be very dry and itchy (the moisture is only a very thin layer on the eye, so it might have had time to evaporate in 3 seconds, taking the heat from the surface of your eyeballs -- of course, you kept your eyes open for the 3 seconds, otherwise, what's the point)

But, unless you have other problems or get scared too easily, you'd still be alive and conscious.

You would not have exploded from internal pressure (the skin and organ membranes are resistent enough). Your blood would not have boiled off. You would not have frozen solid from the coldness of space (in 3 seconds, you body would not have lost very much heat).

Answer 3

No. You would not like the explosive decompression, though. I doubt you would push the button more than once, especially if you made the mistake not to exhale properly and damaged or ruptured a lung with your little EXcursion.

A properly prepared and trained person would survive without ill effects.

But now tell me, why would you not put on a space suit first, then push the button and spend a wonderful half hour or hour hovering above Earth, enjoying the scenery?

Wouldn't going without suit be considered plain stupid, or what?

:-)

Answer 4

I think there would be micro effects. Small blood vessels would erupt in the eyes and other parts of the body. With out air pressure the heart and other muscles could expand to the point of tearing. The heart could stop. Over all a very painful experiance.

Answer 5

People have been exposed to nearly space like conditions in vacuum chamber tests of space suits that went wrong for longer than 3 seconds and they survived with some injury from which they completely recovered.

Answer 6

Dead as dirt.

Answer 7

You'll be ok.