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WCT Jan 19th-23rd
lovebird:
Wiki'd The Stand because I've never read it--there's a possible correlation between the mention of this book and Hanner's flu. Maybe tomorrow Marten will be recounting the story to Dora, Hanners will overhear and ask what The Stand is about and then OCD all over the place about the end of the human race due to a superflu?
masquerade:
Randomgirl overreacted because she looks like a freshman and is probably like the massive majority of college freshman females: overemotional, immature, and obsessed with Twilight. Let's kill her.
Jeff7:
--- Quote from: snubnose on 21 Jan 2009, 12:33 ---
--- Quote from: Jeff7 on 21 Jan 2009, 07:53 ---Some other problems with a vacuum:
1) Water boils immediately. If your skin is damp, you'll lose a hell of a lot of heat that way.
2) You will still lose heat to radiation, but whether or not you're in sunlight will determine how quickly you die. Sunlight in space hits Earth at around 1000W/mē.
3) The air in your lungs will REALLY want to escape - you might have a hell of a time holding in 14.7psi.
--- End quote ---
Well, nope, your blood wont boil as such because your body is solid enough to keep the pressure up high enough.
If your blood really would boil as a whole, you would indeed explode, as one liter of water IIRC translates to 1,700 liters of steam.
And yes, you cannot just hold your breath in the vaccum.
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I know. I never said that your blood would boil off. I said that water will boil, and that if your skin was damp, that water's rapid evaporation would suck a lot of heat out of you very quickly.
However, some blood could perhaps boil:
If capillaries near the skin rupture due to the pressure differential, then the water in the exposed blood would indeed boil away.
Schmorgluck:
Actually, I wonder if, in the vacuum, the fact that heat exchanges are roughly limited to radiation, wouldn't make an excess of body heat a plausible issue (if the other problems somehow weren't important enough). After all, the main temperature problem space engineers face with inhabited space structures is not warming, but cooling.
Anyway about the comic: this reminds me of a conversation I read on a forum. A guy said that he found weird the number of girls who had tried to flirt with him since he was with his girlfriend. He said about a dozen in three months. His girlfriend, also on that forum (actually, they met through said forum), merrily told that it was only counting the ones he noticed, in fact there had been much more.
cory54321:
--- Quote from: masquerade on 21 Jan 2009, 19:47 ---Randomgirl overreacted because she looks like a freshman and is probably like the massive majority of college freshman females: overemotional, immature, and obsessed with Twilight. Let's kill her.
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As a college freshman female, I resent that! :-P
I kind of sympathize with her too. She finally works up the courage to ask the cutie at the library desk out, only to find out he's taken. How mortifying.
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