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- From: hinz@bonfire (David Hinz (hinz@picard.med.ge.com))
- Subject: Re: Vacuum Question
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 07:00:05 GMT
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- Denis Fafard (denisf@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca) wrote:
- : cre1@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (CHRISTOPHER R. EMERSON) writes:
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- : I believe that this topic was covered in the star.trek.tech group. From
- : what I read (and this is just a brief summary) the eventual conclusion
- : reached was that you would NOT explode. I vaguely remember something
- : about you being able to survive for a short period of time, (matter of
- : seconds) then the body having some affects from the cold and death.
- : That, all under 20 seconds or so ?? Perhaps scan back thru the posts
- : and see if it is still there.
-
- I don't know if I buy the freeze in seconds bit. As I recall reading,
- perhaps here, space is not so good at being a heat sink. Yes, it's
- quite cold (not many moving molecules), but it can't carry heat away
- from you too fast (same reason).
-
- Then we get into heat vs. temperature, which is a can of worms I'm trying
- to forget. ;-)
-
- Dave
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