Would a human body decay is the vacum of space?
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If you died in a spacesuit and didnt go into a blackhole then yes.
219801
Nothing, you'd be dead after a second or two. If you did manage to survive, methane.... one big, farty planet.
361540
I think I'd crap mine a second or two before, at the realization. But yes, all muscles relax(releasing urine and crap) and then shortly thereafter fluids from your organs begin to seep out your pores underneath you, however you are laying. I used to bag bodies and escort them to the morgue.\nQuite messy actually.
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Great Question\nOK- 2 parts\n1.On a cosmic scale- You are right. \nWithout gravity, nothing in our iniverse would exist at a level higher than coalesced energy, which, even if able to bind at a sub-atomic level, would be unable to bind atomically without the force of gravity wich occurs on an atomic scale.\n\n2. On a system specific scale, you are essentially right.\nIf he was talking about still having the existence of gravity on a universal or cosmic level, and sending life created within a gravitational field into a region without a gravitational field, the following would occur.\n\nThe "life" that we send into a zero gravity region is a system of atoms that was created in and depends on gravity to survive.\n\nNASA's open questions to the public about re-creating earths gravity in space is an attempt to lengthen the duration of time that a person can stay in space in a man made optimum environment. \n\nAs soon as a person leaves the earths gravitaional field, several things start to occur in the body.\n\nCirculatory problems-within 2-3 days there is a 22% blood volume decrease or loss.\nMuscle atrophy occurs in space at 5% per week.\nBone atrophy occurs in space at 1% per month\n\nRemember, our bodies were developed within the earths gravity field, our muscles are needed to counter gravity.\nIn space, we no longer need our muscles, so the brain starts to optimize the body by getting rid of what it does'nt need. \n\nLongest stay is 430 days in space.\n\nA human could remain in space probably no more than 2 years without complete irreversible damage. \n\nOur existing atomic system as we know it would change into something else. A person for example, would die. But the atoms and molecules that make up that person don't die, they change thier state of existance to create a differently shaped system of atoms. If the system of atoms was provided heat energy, then it would continue to exist and change. Regardless of what system of atoms we started with, a human, a dog, a monkey, a rat, it would not survive as that system. Would it survive as a system of microbials, possibly. How long? 10 yrs, 100 yrs, 1000 yrs, we can't answer that.\n\nReview \nYou are essentially correct in both cases.\nPending further clarification of his definition of zero gravity, and his definition of life.\n\nWithout gravity having existed-no life.\n\nIf we start with existing life within an existing gravity field- life (in some form) could technically exist without gravity because the gravity between atoms and molecules will keep them connected, although most certainly not as it started out.\n\nSpread the knowledge
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Yes, of course there is litter in space, AKA "space junk".\nStuff does get lost durring space walks, stuff will fall off a satelite, debris is in orbit around the Earth.\nAll that space junk is being tracked in its orbit along with all the other satelites and space vehicles since they pose a collision threat.  You need to know where all the potnetially dangerous stuff is up there when you launch something in to space so you dont put in on a collision course.\n\nEventually, all the stuff will burn up in the Earth's atmosphere after its orbit degrades.
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You asked a very good question. The fact is that vacuum or "empty space" is NOT empty at all. Scientists have recently confirmed that vaccum contains "energy" and the energy density has been measured to be on the order of 10^-29 grams per cubic cm or 10^-47 GeV^4.\n\nSince we all know that mass and energy are equivalent through Einstein's Special Relativity, so we can certainly say that vacuum contains some form of "matter".\n\nBTW, it has also been confirmed that the majority of our Universe's mass/energy density is due to the mass/energy density of the vacuum. As a matter of fact, vacuum is rsponsible for 73% of it. This vacuum energy is also called "Dark Energy".
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that totally depends on what environment the body is kept in as it's decomposing.....  a body kept in a warm, moist environment will decompose much quicker than one in a cold, dry place.
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Even more so . That is what causes the body to decompose. If you died on Antarctica your body would be preserved as the germs would be frozen in their tracks
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The Outer space does posses gases, but the vaccum is present because of the incomrehensible size of the universe. Had gases  such as Hydrogen and Helium not been present, there wouldn't have been a sun or nuclear fusion... vaccum indicates absence of matter. It becomes a matter of perspective whether you stand on earth and say that the galaxy andromeda is in outer space but earth is not.. when a hypothetical being on andromeda would say that earth is in outer space but andromeda is not... ;)
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OK... let's get graphic.\nFirst off..... you'd die! No way around that!\nWhat would kill you first is the question.\nSpace is incredibly cold, so instant exposure to space would freeze almost all liquid in your body solid.\nSpace is also a HUGE vaccum, so all the air would be sucked out of you either while you're freezing solid, of during your freezing process.... either way, you'd suffocate if you didn't freeze by some miracle.\nSpace has absolutely no compromising pressure like the inside of our atmospere. Our bodies are used to a certain atmosperic pressure. Without it (I.E in space) if you didn't freeze or suffocate, eventually the lack of pressure would collapse our fragile bodies.\nThe possibilities for death are indeed endless.
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I guess it would explode because of the difference in pressure... but then again this is with a live human... not sure about the dead one.\n\nThis site might be of help:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_adaptation_to_space
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I just answered this on another question.\n\nActually, there is no such thing as a true vacuum...Period!\nA true vacuum has never been created, anywhere, where the atomic count is zero.\nThere is always atomic content left to fill the "vacuous" space. No one has ever been able to creat a true vacuum.\n\nContrary to popular belief, empty space is not empty, and it is certainly not a vacuum. \nresearch it, its true.\n"Empty" space actually contains an average of 1 hydrogen atom for every 32 cubic centimeters of space, this data is per NASA.\n\nIn our own Milky Way, space is more dense with 1 hydrogen atom for every 1 cubic centimeter.\n\nAs of today, light has NEVER been propagated through a true empty vacuum. \n\nOne day the misinformation of space, or anything else, as a vacuum will finally die out.\n\nSpread the knowledge
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Because space is vacuum gases, which would be produced by the cheese and are the cause of the bad smell we get here in earth, will dissolve extremely quickly due to lack of air pressure. Thus no or extremely small concentration (a molecule or two) would reach your nose.\n\nIt is the same effect if you compare the small of the same fart in an elevator or in open air... :)
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i don't believe that we take anything from our earthly bodies with us. our soul leaves our earthbound bodies to go where ever it goes and our clothes are left behind. the clothes lay in the ground with the decaying body. i'd like to believe that our souls become beautiful light and we won't need clothes in Heaven.
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Linmar--i want to propose MY personal theory, which cannot be scientifically proven in any publication to date.  I had a vision one evening after watching a show about spontaneous combustion victims.  One victim was a middle-aged man with a stump for an arm.  He described the event as a mild tingling with no pain, and much to his dismay, his hand and most of his forearm turned to ash.  \n\nUsing his experience, this isn't about fat burning, or too much oxygen, or even about oxidation as we know it.  The material in our bodies has stored chemical potential energy.  We have internal heat generation which keeps our bodies warm.  It is like a clock spring slowly unwinding.\n\nNOW, if you sped up this clock, relative to normal time-space, your energy would dissipate so rapidly, that the object WOULD turn to ash due to the release of heat.  If a human arm dissipates 10 watts every second for the lifetime of the arm, say 70 years, that equals 22*10^9 joules.  THAT"S A LOT OF ENERGY.  Now for instance, if for some reason a time-space continuum intersected with the man, if his arm actually was accidentally inserted into another dimension whose time constant was 100 times our speed, his arm simply aged and died.  All the energy that would have unwound in this time space over the course of 70 years, unwound in minutes or seconds.  If there are time-space defects and other dimensions, it makes sense that entropy may not unwind at the same pace in all spaces.  \n\nIt reminds me that the earth is travelling at thousands of miles per hour through space.  We have no perception of this at all.  But put a cosmic bed post by the earth, and have an impact, BAM!! Bye-bye earth.  I think it is the same thing.  For some unlucky reason, I beleive this particular man had an interdimensional event wherein the potential energy in his arm dissipated very quickly in that other dimension.  \n\nFood for thought--tell me whatchya think.
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theoretically, YES.\n\neven space is not a complete vacuum.\n\nthe "tightest" vacuum exists in intergalactic space with a density of one hydrogen atom per cubic centimeter.\n\n"sound" is the perception of vibrations in atoms as percieved by the human ear.  \n\ntheoretically, a large enough shockwave ( e.g. a supernova ) could compress enough of these rare atoms in space to move your eardrum ( if the radiation doesnt kill you first ! ).  \n\nif you consider the music coming out of your stereo amplifier to be sound, then consider a microphone that is sensitive enough to pick up these minute vibrations in space and amplify them to your speakers and you would be listening to their sound ! ( in space ).\n\nin short, the VIBRATIONS are there even in the thinnest vacuum, it is only a question of being able listen to them !
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Definitely Vacuum. Because space, that is vacuum space has no mass. Because of that factor, WE, can basically, "FLY" in outer space....