Smite Makes Right wrote:
OzInc wrote:
Reason #3 -- It is very cold in space, liquids like blood freeze instantly effectively sealing the puncture.
Space is not cold. Cold requires matter for you to be in contact with and transfer your heat to. In a vacuum, you are actually at risk of overheating as you can absorb heat from a "nearby" star and have no way to transfer it away. ...
I am sure that every Space agency is going to be happy to learn that space is not cold, so we no longer have to worry about the fact that the average temperature of space (the cosmic microwave background temperature of 2.7 Kelvin (-270.45 Celsius)) is not longer a concern or that objects no longer radiate energy into the near vacuum of space. Entropy is clearly no longer an issue as well.
In point of fact, while the starward face of objects gain heat as you suggest, the fact still remains that objects do radiate heat into the near vacuum of space and at 2.7 Kelvin, -454.75 Fahrenheit it would be hard to call that anything but cold.
Bookrat gave you far to much credit when he suggested you were half right, in point of fact, you were not correct, and knew only one detail but not how it relates to the subject.
I suggest before, you mistakenly correct you actually do a little more work learning. Reason #3, and #2 are actually based on NASA studies, so while tongue in cheek in my answers, they were soundly based on well defined science. Sorry to burst your bubble Smite, but this time "Smite
makes wrong."
Better luck next time
