OT: Heating Space

[Narrew]

Ok, this is what would happen, minus all the suffocating.

The side facing the sun will heat up, and the side facing deep space will radiate heat, your mission if you wish to accept it, is to move closer to the sun so that the middle part of your body is a normal 98.6 f. But I will not speculate the temperature of the part of your body that is on the sun side or the deep space side.

Reading about refining metals in space, the vacuum is a large help, they can have extreme temperature ranges with in a few feet. Of course Halliburton has yet to build their space exploiting space mill.

[Puke]

im not very smart, but this is how i understand it:

if you were about as far from the sun as we are now, and were hanging out naked in space, you would experience very fast moving particles eminating from the sun, slamming into you. they would heat you up very quickly, and if you were "mooning" the sun, you would very quickly have third degree burns on your back side.

due to the lack of pressure, you would most certainly embolize and i believe capilaries and things are supposed to burst. your body would actually retain heat since you dont have anything much to radiate it to, and you would keep getting hotter as the sun cooked you from the rear. but since there is no pressure in a vaccuum, you would freeze (i have seen videos of water in a vaccuum simultaniously boiling and freezing. bizzare.)

Things like the cells in your eyeballs (facing away from the sun) would explode as the water in them freezes and ruptures the cell walls. not that your eyeballs themselves would explode, but think of a serious case of freezer burn.

[Fyron]

Pressure is not the only thing to consider while out in space. The difference in relative concentrations of the system (you) and the environment (space, vacuum) is extreme. Stuff will want to diffuse from you out into space.

[Phoenix-D]

It will want to, but it won't have a very easy time of it. The concentration of water inside and outside a human body under normal conditions is a very high ratio too, for example. Skin is tough.

[Fyron]

But not nearly as great as the difference between matter and vacuum.

[Phoenix-D]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
But not nearly as great as the difference between matter and vacuum.

I'm walking around here occasionally with 1% humidity. That's a really frigging high gradient.

It helps that half the stuff your body does anyway is pump things against gradients. Not as extreme, but in vaccum you'll have other issues anyway. Tack on the layers of skin in between..and diffusion becomes a non-issue.

[Kamog]

is to move closer to the sun so that the middle part of your body is a normal 98.6 f. But I will not speculate the temperature of the part of your body that is on the sun side or the deep space side.

Maybe you can rotate yourself so that your body is warmed evenly.