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Offline Anodizer

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How long can you survive in the vacuum of space?
« on: January 05, 2012, 11:41:24 PM »
http://www.oneplusyou.com/q/v/space_vacuum

Apparently, I would last 1 minute 17 seconds..  With about 15-20 seconds of useful consciousness..  


I actually think about this often...  And it terrifies me...  
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Re: How long can you survive in the vacuum of space?
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2012, 11:42:57 PM »
I don't know but my brother tells me a fly survives surprisingly long when microwaved.
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Re: How long can you survive in the vacuum of space?
« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2012, 11:54:38 PM »
1 minute and 11 seconds for me :aok

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Re: How long can you survive in the vacuum of space?
« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2012, 12:09:00 AM »
I survived in Oklahoma for a couple hours. The vacuum of space doesn't scare me.
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Re: How long can you survive in the vacuum of space?
« Reply #4 on: January 06, 2012, 12:23:44 AM »
I survived in Oklahoma for a couple hours. The vacuum of space doesn't scare me.

yeah I saw that play too.  I thought i had died after about 15 minutes, I was revived by the alcohol i drank in the bar next to the theater.


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Re: How long can you survive in the vacuum of space?
« Reply #5 on: January 06, 2012, 12:48:53 AM »
There is a problem with the test....


...it does not ask whether or not you'd wear a space suit.
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Re: How long can you survive in the vacuum of space?
« Reply #6 on: January 06, 2012, 12:56:03 AM »
http://www.oneplusyou.com/q/v/space_vacuum

Apparently, I would last 1 minute 17 seconds..  With about 15-20 seconds of useful consciousness..  
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I actually think about this often...  And it terrifies me...  

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Re: How long can you survive in the vacuum of space?
« Reply #7 on: January 06, 2012, 01:24:01 AM »
There is a problem with the test....


...it does not ask whether or not you'd wear a space suit.

It's obviously meant to be without a pressure suit... 
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Re: How long can you survive in the vacuum of space?
« Reply #8 on: January 06, 2012, 05:21:50 AM »
It depends on how close you're too the sun and whether you're facing the sun directly or in the shadow of a large object.

In low Earth orbit, facing the sun you would feel immense heat and singe your skin while suffocating from lack of oxygen due to 200 degrees F.  On the shadow side of Earth, you would feel immense cold and experience total frostbite exposure instantly while suffocating from lack of oxygen due to -200 degrees F.  In both cases, lack of atmospheric pressure will cause your blood to boil making you experience extreme pain but no oxygen to allow you to vocalize screams of pain before you die.

Using low Earth orbit as a bar, farther away from the sun your experience will be greater than the shadow of Earth and closer to the sun your experience will be greater than facing the sun.

Once away from the electromagnetic field of a planet, you'll have to endure at the same time the harsh solar radiation being pierced through your body cooking you inside like a microwave.  If your outside the electromagnetic field of the sun and in interstellar space, then the interstellar radiation will be much stronger and cooking you inside faster.  If your outside the electromagnetic field of the galaxy and in intergalactic space, then the radiation there will be the greatest and cook you the fastest.

Space is the most extreme dangerous enviroment to be in. 
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Re: How long can you survive in the vacuum of space?
« Reply #9 on: January 06, 2012, 06:20:00 AM »
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Re: How long can you survive in the vacuum of space?
« Reply #10 on: January 06, 2012, 06:43:36 AM »
Wow, surprisingly 1:29.



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Re: How long can you survive in the vacuum of space?
« Reply #11 on: January 06, 2012, 07:09:37 AM »
1:35 hehehehe. or not. Would rather have it 1.35 milliseconds if the occation would be there. Not likely though, the highest alt I have been to is 43.000 feet or so.
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Re: How long can you survive in the vacuum of space?
« Reply #12 on: January 06, 2012, 07:43:41 AM »
1 minute 23 seconds

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Re: How long can you survive in the vacuum of space?
« Reply #13 on: January 06, 2012, 08:55:45 AM »
How long can the vacuum of space survive chuck norris?
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Re: How long can you survive in the vacuum of space?
« Reply #14 on: January 06, 2012, 11:10:49 AM »
How long can the vacuum of space survive chuck norris?

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