Space exploration is fascinating, but it is also absolutely terrifying. To prove it, we turn to a recent one Popular Science video this explains what happens to the human body when someone dies in space.
In short, it is… not great. The video describes what would happen if an astronaut working on the International Space Station suit was punctured by a micrometeorite, posing it as one of the most likely reasons someone died in the cold, indifferent vacuum. After only 15 seconds, they would lose consciousness and die of “suffocation or decompression” before their gooddy froze. “10 seconds of exposure to the vacuum of space would force water from the skin and blood to vaporize as your body expanded outward like a balloon,” the narrator says. “Their lungs would collapse and after 30 seconds they would be paralyzed if they were not dead yet.”
Beyond the facts of death itself, the video also refers to the baffling fact that space corpses should be stored in an air lock or abandoned. Tthe body would follow the path of a ferry, hanging nearby like a horrible ghost.
Fortunately, as the video points out, not many people have gone beyond the great beyond space. So far only three people have died beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. (Many more were killed rocket accidents.) With joy, the narrator says this will likely change as space missions aim to send people to Mars, where “individuals could be stranded or even perish, either on the road, while living in harsh environments. or at some other mission point “.
All these details seem a sufficient motivation for humanity to continue our work by creating alternative types of astronauts, more suited to the dangers of space. LI mean, The robot astronaut of India, Vyommitra, or immortal demigod OT-VIII, Tom Cruise.
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