“A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.” -Tennessee Williams
The depiction of dying in space — by exposure to its terrifying vacuum — is incredibly varied, from freezing to swelling and bulging to simply exploding.
Image credit: Mike Tyson Mysteries / Adult Swim. Uh oh, looks like I killed another astronaut!
For this week’s Ask Ethan, we take on the question of Kerrie Pinkney, who wants to know:
[W]ill you explode if exposed to the vacuum of space? I’ve gone down the “water boils in a vacuum then freezes” road, others have gone down the “tried it on a dog and it lived” approach. The movie Gravity shows buddy lifting his helmet and instantly freezing so… how does it work, Ethan?
So, who’s got it right?
Image credit: Post of Soviet Union.
Come and find out what happens to the human body in the vacuum of space on this week’s Ask Ethan!
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“A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.” -Tennessee Williams
The depiction of dying in space — by exposure to its terrifying vacuum — is incredibly varied, from freezing to swelling and bulging to simply exploding.
Image credit: Mike Tyson Mysteries / Adult Swim. Uh oh, looks like I killed another astronaut!
For this week’s Ask Ethan, we take on the question of Kerrie Pinkney, who wants to know:
[W]ill you explode if exposed to the vacuum of space? I’ve gone down the “water boils in a vacuum then freezes” road, others have gone down the “tried it on a dog and it lived” approach. The movie Gravity shows buddy lifting his helmet and instantly freezing so… how does it work, Ethan?
So, who’s got it right?
Image credit: Post of Soviet Union.
Come and find out what happens to the human body in the vacuum of space on this week’s Ask Ethan!
from ScienceBlogs http://ift.tt/1AScCLC
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