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Ptolemy
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A very non specific question about heat loss in a vacuum.
If you threw a human into space (with out worrying about his/her lungs bursting out) is there a rule of thumb about how fast he/she would cool down.
As there is molecules heat transfer can only be through radiation, and assuming he/she is not in the sun's path, there is no radiation adding heat and no molecules hitting him/her to add heat through kinetic energy.
So would they lose heat very quickly or would they be like coffee in a thermos flask and be perfectly insulated in space and only lose heat very slowly.
(This is probably very basic)
If you threw a human into space (with out worrying about his/her lungs bursting out) is there a rule of thumb about how fast he/she would cool down.
As there is molecules heat transfer can only be through radiation, and assuming he/she is not in the sun's path, there is no radiation adding heat and no molecules hitting him/her to add heat through kinetic energy.
So would they lose heat very quickly or would they be like coffee in a thermos flask and be perfectly insulated in space and only lose heat very slowly.
(This is probably very basic)