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  1. englandroxmysox

    englandroxmysox Member

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    sense there is like no oxygen in space and blood turns red when it comes in contacked with oxygen, would you bleed blue in space????????????
     
  2. TopNotchStoner

    TopNotchStoner Georgia Homegrown

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    I have often wondered the same thing.
     
  3. MollyThe Hippy

    MollyThe Hippy get high school

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    you don't have to go to space to prove this, cut you finger in your vacuum cleaner
     
  4. hotwater

    hotwater Senior Member Lifetime Supporter

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    This might help straight from the NASA website:


    How long can a human live unprotected in space?


    If you don't try to hold your breath, exposure to space for half a minute or so is unlikely to produce permanent injury. Holding your breath is likely to damage your lungs, something scuba divers have to watch out for when ascending, and you'll have eardrum trouble if your Eustachian tubes are badly plugged up, but theory predicts -- and animal experiments confirm -- that otherwise, exposure to vacuum causes no immediate injury. You do not explode. Your blood does not boil. You do not freeze. You do not instantly lose consciousness.

    Various minor problems (sunburn, possibly "the bends", certainly some [mild, reversible, painless] swelling of skin and underlying tissue) start after ten seconds or so. At some point you lose consciousness from lack of oxygen. Injuries accumulate. After perhaps one or two minutes, you're dying. The limits are not really known. You do not explode and your blood does not boil because of the containing effect of your skin and circulatory system. You do not instantly freeze because, although the space environment is typically very cold, heat does not transfer away from a body quickly. Loss of consciousness occurs only after the body has depleted the supply of oxygen in the blood.



    Hotwater
     
  5. indian~summer

    indian~summer yo ho & a bottle of yum

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    <3 nasa

    you should do some research into this subject, star trek the originial series with shatner would provide some valuable insight :)
     
  6. fitzy21

    fitzy21 Worst RT Mod EVAH!!!!

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    i would love to do a free fall jump from space :D
     

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