OT: Heating Space

Katchoo · #1 February 20th, 2004, 11:13 PM

A Star is super hot. So my query is would the space approaching a Star be heated aswell?

If this proves true, then if you found a safe distance from a Star (where it wouldn't be too hot) and if you had a suit that could effectively filter the radiation comming off the Star, then you could work outside your spacecraft without worrying about freezing to death.

Just imagine slapping on some sunscreen (SPF 50 jillion) and playing outside your spaceship in nothing but your birthday suit!

(The things you think about while trying to fall asleep...

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Spoo · #2 February 20th, 2004, 11:49 PM

Ah, but the lack of pressure would make you explode. Not pretty.

narf poit chez BOOM · #3 February 20th, 2004, 11:55 PM

we had a thread on that. you wouldn't explode, just suffocate.

se5a · #4 February 20th, 2004, 11:55 PM

and no, emptyspace itself does not heat up, gases do and solid objects do even more effectivly (depending on there reflective properties or lack of)

so being outside your spaceship without protection (apart from exploading) you would cook if you were in full sunlight.

I dont think being cold is realy much of a problem in space, being hot is the problem.

narf poit chez BOOM · #5 February 21st, 2004, 01:21 AM

depends how far from a sun you are.

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narf poit chez BOOM · #7 February 21st, 2004, 07:08 AM

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Atrocities · #8 February 21st, 2004, 08:01 AM

We could always plug in a bunch of Cadet heaters into solor generators and set them adrift in the solor system.

Narrew · #9 February 21st, 2004, 11:04 PM

Ok, this is what would happen, minus all the suffocating.

The side facing the sun will heat up, and the side facing deep space will radiate heat, your mission if you wish to accept it, is to move closer to the sun so that the middle part of your body is a normal 98.6 f. But I will not speculate the temperature of the part of your body that is on the sun side or the deep space side.

Reading about refining metals in space, the vacuum is a large help, they can have extreme temperature ranges with in a few feet. Of course Halliburton has yet to build their space exploiting space mill.

Puke · #10 February 21st, 2004, 11:06 PM

im not very smart, but this is how i understand it:

if you were about as far from the sun as we are now, and were hanging out naked in space, you would experience very fast moving particles eminating from the sun, slamming into you. they would heat you up very quickly, and if you were "mooning" the sun, you would very quickly have third degree burns on your back side.

due to the lack of pressure, you would most certainly embolize and i believe capilaries and things are supposed to burst. your body would actually retain heat since you dont have anything much to radiate it to, and you would keep getting hotter as the sun cooked you from the rear. but since there is no pressure in a vaccuum, you would freeze (i have seen videos of water in a vaccuum simultaniously boiling and freezing. bizzare.)

Things like the cells in your eyeballs (facing away from the sun) would explode as the water in them freezes and ruptures the cell walls. not that your eyeballs themselves would explode, but think of a serious case of freezer burn.