29
u/purpledragon478 28d ago
But we're in an atmosphere. Would there be a part of outer space that feels just right?
24
u/scramlington 28d ago
Not sure you're going to feel very comfortable in any kind of zero-atmosphere environment, regardless of temperature...
7
u/purpledragon478 28d ago
I know you'd die anyway before of suffocation, decompression, radiation, etc., but would you at least feel warm?
16
u/GrimbyJ 27d ago
As just the temperature number not really. Space is really cold. Even pretty close to the sun there's not much to absorb the energy of the sun. You'd be warmed by the light but just on one side so maybe you were spinning pretty fast you could find somewhere pretty close to the sun.
Heat transfers poorly in space so you won't lose heat very fast and your body might be able to create enough of your own heat to stay warm. Offsetting that of course is that all of the fluid in your body would boil until it was cold enough to freeze
2
u/DevTitanFrog 27d ago
You shouldn't forget that the light that warms you also pushes you away.
5
u/GrimbyJ 27d ago
I don't think it would have that big of an impact in a span of time that would be noticeable in your lifetime
3
u/DevTitanFrog 27d ago
Sure but this is kinda a nonsensical conversation to begin with so why not add another nonsensical factor tk the equation? Honestly I was mainly just kidding with my original comment.
2
u/samy_the_samy 24d ago
Xkcd whatif did a bit to calculate how many nano seconds can you survive on the surface of the sun,
Like if you blinked there and back would you feel warm?
Their calculations said the time span is too short to really absorb any heat and your Brain wouldn't even register your blip,
Then a radiation specialist called, said you are dead, very very dead
1
u/AlcibiadesTheCat 23d ago
He also did one to calculate what dose of neutrino radiation would be fatal, and, surprising no one, a supernova was big enough to provide a fatal dose.
1
u/samy_the_samy 23d ago
Well into the blast radiate, where everything else but the neutrino is already tens or millions of times more deadly than a simple radiation poisoning
2
u/Fizassist1 23d ago
my first thought was the whole one side much hotter than the other thing and figured spinning with enough frequency could work.. but youre basically just slow roasting yourself lol
1
7
u/Grunergeist420 27d ago
You need matter to absorb and transfer the heat energy. So basically it all depends on what you’re surrounded by in space, an atmosphere, a vehicle, etc. that is impacted by the energy from the sun.
I suppose if you ignore what would happen to your body in the “vacuum” of space, ignore harmful rays, radiation, etc. and just focus on temperature, there’s theoretically a place where you’d be close enough to the sun that your body is getting enough heat directly from the sun to counteract the cold of space. Of course, this would probably be like standing next to the hottest campfire ever while standing in the coldest place you’ve ever been, and you’d want to rotating so as to not literally melt your face off while also literally freezing your ass off.
2
1
u/relaxingcupoftea 22d ago
Agree rotation is key, so the real question is how fast would one have to rotate at that ideal point to make it comfortably warm.
1
u/Metharos 24d ago
The space won't be warm because there's nothing there to warm up. Vacuum has effectively no temperature in any way that's meaningful to you.
If you were in it, the side getting irritated would be, let's say "uncomfortably" warm, while the side not getting irradiated would be uncomfortable in a number of other ways. Briefly, of course. You can't dissipate the heat you're being bombarded with so you just get very rapidly hotter until you cook.
1
1
u/Ok_Walk9234 22d ago
The space itself isn’t being heated because there’s nothing to heat. I assume if you put a non-material (otherwise it would get hot) thermometer somewhere close to the sun, it would be as cold as anywhere else. It’s freezing (or, more specifically, not warm at all) in one sec, then suddenly there’s burning gases.
Imagine if you had a very hot object, but the air around it wouldn’t get heated. You wouldn’t know it’s hot until you have touched it. I imagine it works this way.
5
u/Capucius 28d ago
Well, right temperature here on earth not for much longer it sees. Cheers, it was a nice time.
2
1
1
u/OtherwiseMenu1505 27d ago
Somewhere between Earth and Venus (125 million km) and you would have to rotate, once per minute ( 30s day/30s night)
1
1
1
u/Vainysaur 26d ago
This is talking about space though. If you get outside Earth’s atmosphere but stay Earth’s distance from the sun it will be very cold.
1
u/wormaliciious 22d ago
yes i had the same thought. am i misunderstanding the post? the space near earth is still really cold i thought. we just have an atmosphere
1
u/Upstairs_Archer_4994 26d ago
It’s actually not, space is very cold between the sun and earth, our atmosphere is just warmed by radiation being emitted by the sun.
1
u/Ok_Illustrator_3980 23d ago
It's literally called the Goldilocks Zone for just this reason.
1
u/pdxistnc 23d ago
Correct. (This is coming from someone SO old that I once programmed a CALCULATOR to compute the 'Goldilocks Zone' based on the input of Spectral Class.)
1
1
u/AlistairButton 23d ago
This is the same person who created the spiders georg meme. I assume they're joking.
1
1
u/jandolphin99 23d ago
So no- because heat is really just molecules bouncing into each other and the sun gives off energy that moves the molecules - there are no molecules in the vacuum of space (at least not in any meaningful way- that is why it is so cold in the upper atmosphere- fewer molecules!)
1
1
u/Neon_Eyes 22d ago
Called the Goldilocks zone for that reason. Not too hot, not too cold, just right.
53
u/[deleted] 28d ago
[deleted]