Why is Space a Vacuum

[narf poit chez BOOM]

you must have missed it, one of the Posts or links mentioned that heat isn't lost fast in space.

my breakdown of why that might be: heat is lost two ways: radiation and transfer. your body doesn't produce much radiation and in space there isn't much matter to transfer heat to.

[Suicide Junkie]

Even though you may be reasonably warm, the zero pressure will cause your water to both boil and freeze at the same time, at your regular body temperature.
That's not going to be nice... try not to sweat too much

[ January 29, 2004, 02:33: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]

[Phoenix-D]

Your blood probably won't boil until after you're dead from lack of oxygen anyway. Water has a very low pressure-induced boiling point, and the cold would just push that down farther.

Remember that vaccum doesn't conduct at -all- so the only heat loss or gain would be from radiation.

[geoschmo]

Your blood won't boil at all unless it's exposed to the vacuum. Your own internal body pressure prevents that. If your skin were punctured any blood that escaped the wound would boil off though. If you were to sweat it would boil, and the saliva in your mouth would probably boil off. But the fluid in your body that was not exposed to the vacuum would be fine. At least for much longer then it would take for you to die from lack of oxygen anyway.

Your blood wont freeze immedietly, because of the previously mentioned fact about vacuum being a very poor conductor of heat.

[ January 29, 2004, 02:49: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

[Kamog]

According to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

"If you hold a lungful of air, you can survive in the total vacuum of space for about thirty seconds. However, with space being the mind-boggling size it is the chances of getting picked up by another ship wihin those thirty seconds are two to the power of two hundred and seventy-six thousand, seven hundred and nine to one against."

[dogscoff]

Long term a body in a vacuum would be desicated, that's why food is often vacuum packed. But it doesn't happen that fast, certainly not as fast as you are going to asphyxiate anyway.

Does this mean I have to rewrite this?

[Atrocities]

Originally posted by aiken:
Where is nothing can stop you from nebula mining. But only for organics. I doubt that minerals and rads are so widespread in nebulas. The only exception - it was formed by supernova bLast. When about 10e-1 percent (approximately) of heavy elements could be found in such system.
Btw, is it possible to give new Ability for Storm 1,2,3 system, e.g. "Planet - Change Organics Value" or a kind of this?

Hey, it is nice to see some one here who has a System Shock Avatar. Great games.

As for abilities, that would be something to ask fyron.