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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 5029051" data-attributes="member: 710">No cheating. That's radiation, even if not what we might normally, in "layman's" turn describe as such.But of course you are correct, this is indeed an issue in space. The Space Shuttle for example constantly rotates to avoid heating up on one side and being damaged due to the temperature differentials. If he was space scuba driving in the shadow of Earth... I have no idea how long it takes. I think one of the nastier things happening is that you will swell up somewhat (but that doesn't mean you explode or anything.) The most definitive guides to what happens when you are exposed to space is probably this site: <a href="http://www.geoffreylandis.com/vacuum.html" target="_blank">Explosive Decompression and Vacuum Exposure</a>It seems as if when you avoid the vacuum effects of low pressure and can keep breathing, not much bad things would happen. You would slowly cool out. One could probably calculate the rate on some basic physical properties of a human body. Though one should not forget that a human body is also creating his own heat, so this might slow the process, assuming it's faster than you dying from thirst or starvation. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> I would not discount the possibility that, given also food and water, you would never cool out.</blockquote>

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