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Blobfish (lemmynsfw.com)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (24 children)

Thanks! I was about to ask if there is time for the pressure differences to act upon our biology, or if the freezing bit happens before everything has a chance to go pop!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (14 children)

You don't really freeze because in a vacuum you lose heat very slowly. You'd suffocate long before that. Or, as previously mentioned, go pop

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (8 children)

Hmm, is it because vacuum acts essentially like an insulator? I'm thinking this because, from what I remember about high-school thermodynamics, heat needs to "jump" from matter to matter, and there's not a relevant quantity of matter in a vacuum to act as a heat absorber, like air does over here, right?:-?

I'm genuinely asking, I'm sure I have brain rot from watching too many sci-fi movies...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Radiation will still transfer heat. But that will be relatively slow. This image gives a quick overview of the ways heat may be transfered.