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| May 8, 2015 at 15:35 | comment | added | K-H-W | @flq - Yes, but, as living beings, we are heat engines, and produce a LOT of heat; without a large environment to convey it away, elimination of heat is a serious issue in space. You WILL cool down, eventually.. but that's after you are no longer converting food to energy, and acting as a heat engine. See this TvTropes link for more ("As for spaceships ... the real trouble with spaceships is getting rid of all the heat they produce".) You are right in an abstract sense.. but living beings make things more complicated. | |
| May 8, 2015 at 11:37 | comment | added | flq | I don't think it is wrong to say that space is cold. When you are far away from any source of radiation, you will cool down close to 2.7K which is the background radiation of our Cosmos. Heat has nothing to do with there being an atmosphere or a vacuum. | |
| May 18, 2014 at 19:17 | comment | added | K-H-W | One big problem.. Space isn't cold. It's a vacuum; eliminating heat is usually a major problem for living organisms (and, by extension, space vehicles we use), as we generate it, and when near a star, get heated by the star as well. Stories about the 'Cold of space' have to do with the fact that, without an environment around you to keep your heat in, you will radiate out heat (albeit somewhat slowly due to the vacuum) until you can approach absolute zero -- FAR colder than you will ever get on a planet with an atmosphere. Expelling your internal fluids due to the vacuum cools you, too. :) | |
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| May 18, 2014 at 5:42 | history | answered | steve | CC BY-SA 3.0 |