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Denis Fafard (denisf@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca) wrote:
: cre1@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (CHRISTOPHER R. EMERSON) writes:

: - 
:   I believe that this topic was covered in the star.trek.tech group. From
:  what I read (and this is just a brief summary) the eventual conclusion
:  reached was that you would NOT explode.  I vaguely remember something
:  about you being able to survive for a short period of time, (matter of
:  seconds) then the body having some affects from the cold and death.
:   That, all under 20 seconds or so ??  Perhaps scan back thru the posts
:  and see if it is still there.  

I don't know if I buy the freeze in seconds bit.  As I recall reading,
perhaps here, space is not so good at being a heat sink.  Yes, it's
quite cold (not many moving molecules), but it can't carry heat away
from you too fast (same reason).

Then we get into heat vs. temperature, which is a can of worms I'm trying
to forget. ;-)

Dave

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