Comments on: I abhor a vacuum

By: Tobi

Tobi — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:46:45 +0000

I had a middle school science teacher who would always say “Nothing sucks; everything blows.”

By: GQ

GQ — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:13:57 +0000

A little late for the discussion but someone suffers a “space hicky” in the movie “Event Horizon”.

And doesn’t Tim Robbins get that intense sunburn thing in some movie? Can’t remeber which one but its something about a mission to Mars…

By: marko

marko — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:32:36 +0000

I’m in the 1:17 group, too. But hey, there are many wonderful things you can do in 77 seconds: watch your whole life roll out before your eyes, for example. I’m 37 years old, so that would mean roughly 175 days each second. That’s what I would call fast forward.

Of those 77s, I’d be watching myself eat 5s, on the train 3s, walk 4s, messing around with computers 25s and asleep 26s. The remaining 14s ain’t none of anybodies business.

By: Emily

Emily — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:50:30 +0000

This page at NASA says that hemorrhaging / freezing wouldn’t really be as much of a problem as, well, suffocation. It also says that holding your breath is a bad idea.This is SO great! Awesome information.

By: Charon

Charon — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:55:14 +0000

Space isn’t a vacuum, at least not a perfect one. There’s a lot of gas out there, although it’s not very dense. There are many definitions of temperature (e.g., brightness temperature and spin temperature), but they don’t agree in systems that aren’t in thermodynamic equilibrium (like the interstellar medium). The ISM is never cooler than about 10K, though most areas are much hotter (~5000K is considered just “warm”), though as Torbjörn Larsson points out the (brightness) temperature can never drop below that of the CMB (2.7K).

By: Torbjörn Larsson, OM

Torbjörn Larsson, OM — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:16:32 +0000

@ Gary Ansorge:

VACUUM HAS NO TEMPERATURE

Of course it has, as everything else that interacts with matter. Vacuum consists of all fields, and fields have temperature as observable with a thermometer (i.e. interacting with matter). As it happens, cosmological vacuum has the temperature of the microwave background radiation. In fact, there was a recent thread here on the subject.

By: Larian LeQuella

Larian LeQuella — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:12:33 +0000

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