Timeline for How does space affect the human body (no space suit, no space craft)
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| Oct 2, 2013 at 19:35 | history | edited | Keith Thompson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 18, 2013 at 0:39 | history | edited | Keith Thompson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 16, 2012 at 20:15 | comment | added | Keith Thompson | @CraigFeinstein: Nope. Your skin itself provides enough pressure to hold you together. | |
| Sep 16, 2012 at 13:35 | comment | added | Craig Feinstein | I always thought a person would explode in space if he didn't have a space suit, because there is no pressure on your skin to hold your organs in. | |
| Sep 16, 2012 at 12:09 | comment | added | anna v | Since this came up, I heard of an interesting experiment biologists did with a cockroach. In their lab they had a vacuum creating device,which usually was open to air when not in use. One morning they found a cockroach sitting in it and they did an experiment with it creating the vacuum. The roach slowly blew up like a small balloon. They thought "bye bye roach" and let in air. In a little while the roach walked away. | |
| Mar 25, 2012 at 17:15 | comment | added | Keith Thompson | The phase diagram of saliva would be slightly different. I doubt that anyone has actually constructed one. | |
| Mar 25, 2012 at 13:33 | vote | accept | nopcorn | ||
| Dec 9, 2011 at 23:04 | comment | added | Keith Thompson | @CamJackson: In a vacuum, water can either boil or freeze, depending on the temperature. It can't be in the liquid state at pressures below about 6 millibars (atmospheric pressure is 1000 millibars). The phase diagram of water shows the gory details. | |
| Dec 9, 2011 at 2:37 | comment | added | Cam Jackson | Quick clarification: The boiling points lowers as pressure lowers. At zero pressure (a perfect vacuum), water would basically boil at any temperature, even the near-0K of space. | |
| Dec 9, 2011 at 2:30 | comment | added | Cam Jackson | I'd just like to add the reason for the boiling saliva: It's not because his saliva somehow got really hot all of a sudden, it's because the boiling point of a substance becomes lower in a low-pressure/vacuum environment. I.e. Your saliva may boil, but it wouldn't burn you. | |
| Dec 8, 2011 at 21:23 | comment | added | nopcorn |
Thanks for the great answer and references. I tagged it intergalactic-space because it was the most accurate tag I could find. And my reputation doesn't allow tag creation.
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| Dec 8, 2011 at 21:15 | history | answered | Keith Thompson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
