Die In Space

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What would happen, if you die in space!

With no oxygen and almost zero pressure in the space, 12 seconds exposure to the vacuum of space will cause the blood in your body to vaporize, your body would swell just like a balloon being filled with air, your lungs would collapse, and the saliva in your mouth will start boiling. All these happens because the boiling point is significantly lower in the vacuum. The lower the pressure, the lower the boiling point is in that environment.
Without the Earth’s atmospheric pressure, the liquid or blood in the human body doesn’t remain in its liquid form and will begin to vaporize, expanding your body to approximately twice your normal size.

After 40 seconds of exposure in the space, if you are not dead already, your entire …show more content…

If you didn’t hold your breath, you could survive for up to 2 minutes. So, if you find yourself expelled into the vacuum of space, the first thing you should do is to exhale as much as possible!
If you were located where your body faces the sun, cosmic radiations would begin to burn your skin instantly. If you looked at the sun without any eye-protection, your light-sensitive retinas would be fried and you will loose your eye-sight. Depending on how distant you are from the sun, you will experience a temperature of least 393 kelvins, or 250 degrees Fahrenheit. However, you would certainly die much sooner because of suffocation.
If you were located in a colder area, for example, in the outer space where our planet blocks out the sun, you would experience a temperature of at most 2.7 kelvin, or -455 Fahrenheit. Despite the freezing temperatures, you wouldn’t freeze straight away. Due to the lack of conduction and convection in the space, heat doesn’t leave your body quickly enough, so, again, your death would happen as a result of suffocation

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