• Zozano@lemy.lol
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    2 months ago

    Can you elaborate more? I’m under the impression space is very cold, and the heat would get sucked out like I wish I was, at least once before I eat shit.

    • three@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      the cold is helpful but moving the heat, but is the hard thing getting it away from the space craft. Since there is no atmosphere to take away your heat it just kinda sits there. If it is getting the suns rays it can be even more difficult. so basically it is quite hard.

    • Telodzrum@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Space is cold and not dense. Heat needs to move from a high energy medium to a low energy medium to be dissipated. Since there isn’t any matter for the thermal energy to be transferred to, cooling in space is actually quite difficult.

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      1 month ago

      You need to put the heat somewhere. In the vacuum, heat can only transfer by radiation, which is much less efficient.