[ot] blood in space

[Umbran]

Yah, to reiterate...

Vacuum isn't "cold", in the sense that it doesn't have much of a way to take heat from your body. The body loses heat in space only by radiating it as infrared. Remember - a large portion of the space-walker's backpack is a cooling system.

Rapid decompression hurts, but it may not in and of itself kill you. You pop lots of capillaries droppig from 14 pounds per square inch to zero, but it may or may not be enough to kill you quickly.

Death by suffocation takes as much time in space as it does anywhere else - sure and final death of the brain due to lack of oxygen occurs after about 4 minutes.

 

[JacktheRabbit]

Luckily you will lose conciousness long before the 4 minutes it takes brain death to kill you.

Yah, to reiterate...

Vacuum isn't "cold", in the sense that it doesn't have much of a way to take heat from your body. The body loses heat in space only by radiating it as infrared. Remember - a large portion of the space-walker's backpack is a cooling system.

Rapid decompression hurts, but it may not in and of itself kill you. You pop lots of capillaries droppig from 14 pounds per square inch to zero, but it may or may not be enough to kill you quickly.

Death by suffocation takes as much time in space as it does anywhere else - sure and final death of the brain due to lack of oxygen occurs after about 4 minutes.

 

[Wolf72]

oi, what a grand topic before I try to drift off into sleepy land ...

 

[Michael Tree]

Contrary to what you see through your skin, all blood is red. Deoxygenated blood is a different shade of red from oxygenated blood, but it only really looks blue when looked at through flesh and vein walls.

 

[Number47]

Why do I only happen across these threads after all pertinent information has been posted? I wanted to show off my great big brain!

Note that a punctured space suit with a wound will cause a loss of heat from the escaping blood itself.

 

[wighair]

Thanks for the info people...

> I don't know the answer, but would they movie have been Star Trek VI by any chance?

You know, I think you're right!

 

[DnDChick]

I don't know the answer, but would they movie have been Star Trek VI by any chance?

Yes ... Klingon blood is apparently pinkish-purple.

That struck me as odd since when Whorf was injured in Next Generation his blood was always red.

I have a theory about that, though.

In that scene in STVI, that wasn't the klingon's blood. They klingons were so upset over the fact that they had to deal diplomatically with the Federation that they had drank so much Pepto-Bismol that is suffused througout their system and completely saturated their tissues. When they got zapped, all that Pepto-Bismol oozed out of the wounds. lol

 

[jasper]

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One of the best explainations for a nitpicker answers I ever heard.