greywardencommander wrote...
JustAidan wrote...
SanoBub wrote...
The temparatures in empty space would kill him within seconds.
Even if he would be superman and could somehow fall down to earth (which he wouldn't by the way....he would just float away as he did in ME2 since there is no gravity) he would be a frozen ice block way before he reaches the earth.
While I am not contesting the indoctrination I wanted to clarify some facts.
Space is not cold. Removal of heat from an astronaut is a big problem.
Heat can be lost by conduction, convection and radiation. Lacking contact with anything else or air to transfer heat the only way to lose is through radiative loss. (This is what you would see with thermal imaging goggles)
Hence, if you where exposed to space it would feel like room temperature to you until you started heating up from trapped heat from the metabolic processes going in your body.
Extra:
Provided that you exhale you likely wouldn't damage your lungs ftoo much, though your chances of survival decrease rapidly with time as nitrogen bubbles start to form in you blood from the pressure decrease. A full rundown can be found here: http://imagine.gsfc....ers/970603.html
He'd still float SOMEWHERE he's clearly landed somewhere i.e some sort of planet (regardless of Earth) that impact would crush him (ME2 Jacob: your body was mush) - that would kill him just like in ME2, he wouldn't be able to breathe given he has no helmet (judging by ME2 and that was with a helmet) and he would be incinerated with his suit in the state it's in.
Correct I was addressing the "Space is cold" portion. Friction with an atmosphere produces the heat on reentry, this is why actual astronauts control the angle of their descent to reduce this effect and to spread this heat over their thermal plates. I think I say a pretty scary single person emergency reentry "parachute" for someone in a space suit somewhere awhile back.
Ooo, here is another nice space fact, very heavy object can be made to move veeerrrry slowwwwly, while these appear quite slow and easy to stop, at least if you where on earth which is our frame of reference=), the amount of inertia they have is huge.
So if you watch a space film and watch a villian being very very slowly crushed to death by a giant object you now know that this is entirely realistic =)
VvAndromedavV wrote...
One correction, though: space is cold---at least according to the article you linked. :-)
lex0r11 wrote...
Where you got that from? It is said that in empty space, the temperature is -270 degrees Celsius, or -455 Fahrenheit.
Hmm will have to check with people/articles about that again but from the stuff I know, deep space between galaxies (like where the Reapers hiberate

) is definitely cold, close to absolute zero 1-2 Kevlin or -271 C. If you were just outside earths atmosphere you are still pretty much in the same place relative to the sun, which heats our planet =). So not cold as far as we have been concerned so far.
In sort, we are still near the sun so it is not cold and that is all we have cared about (or been able to experience) so far.
Modifié par JustAidan, 23 mars 2012 - 07:10 .