Episode-II Vs Spider-man

They probs just ejected a chimp into space and watched what happened to it. Think about it though, space has an ambient temperature of around 3K (that's -270C, -454F or bloody cold to all you non-SI gimps) at that temperature water freezes very rapidly. Now your skin is strong stuff, a 1 atmosphere pressure differential won't tear it apart straight away, more likely the surface capiliaries in areas like your nose and ear where the skin is thin will rupture and the blood that flows out will freeze very quickly. I'd image the water in the surface of your skin and your eyes would also freeze within 60 seconds. I don't think it would be a pleasant death.

Well, it's over pretty quickly.

And that makes a lot of sense. I forgot about the cold in space. Yeah, I guess that won't make a body explode.

Are there a pleasant death?

Actually woudldn't make the body implode?..no explode.

Well, Thrax can field any further Physics questions... courtesy of the Chelmsford info-o-rama.

In a vacume of space the body would explode.

NO IT WOULDN'T! We've just had that argument. Check back.

I did and you're WRONG. In a vacuum a body will try to expand to equalise the pressure. Thus it would eventually explode as the vucuum ripped it apart.

The lungs however may well imnplode as the oxygen is ripped from them. Planes and stuff that implode only do so as a result of the evacuation of the air cause negative stresses on their structure.

This is ya actual basic physics. Place an egg in a chamber, evacuate the air and eventually the egg will explode in an attempt to even distribute itself across the voided area.

Look at the area of greter stress/force and that's where the plosion will go.

Sorry, RC, but modern day scientific thought is now agreed that people don't pop in a vacuum. NASA thinks so, the European Space Agency thinks so, and the Russians think so.

I'm no physicist, but my friends DEFINITELY are.

As I remember, the reason you don't pop is something to do with the compressibility of the human body and skin resilience. Thrax has got a Masters in Physics, btw.

Well whooppee for Thrax. Stick HIM in a vacuum and we'll see what happens.

Well, he'll die in about a minute, but he won't pop...

I can see the "compressibility of the human body" thing I guess, but certainly opjects without that compressibilty may try to explode. That said, dowsn't water form a perfect sphere in a ultra low gravity vacuum?

Umm... beginning to get out my depth here. I'll ask Thrax. All I know is that there are pressing reasons why the body doesn't pop, even though it technically should.

It doesn't pop because it'll probably freeze instantly. If you'd do it in a vacuum here in on earth, it might pop. But that's the thing with space: it's soooo incredibly cold. SO you'd die in an instant but not pop. Or so I learned from Ush's friends. And as Ush said: check back.

Plenty more expertise where that came from...

Ush's word is law on that one for now.

Hey, I like this. Masterhood has its privileges...

Indeed. You are now the science delegate.

Sorry, poor thick little english boy is sooooo out of date on his physics.

Einstein was WRONG!!!