Gadgetory

first up I would like to personally congratulate the four winners of the two contests we had running this week so silly and amber as for the two winners of the 8-gigabyte rx for ATS and Jared and Josh were the two winners of the two captain 240 X all-in-one radiator combos one of which I'm sporting in my own personal rig so let's cut to the chase space it's empty right well for the most part there are trace gas molecules zooming around namely hydrogen and depending on where you are you could find anywhere from just one atom for cubic meter of outer space to several million of them within the same volume but that's still nothing compared to Earth's atmosphere interstellar and intergalactic space tends to be the most void and thus will be used for this representation so imagine yourself floating between galaxies say between the Milky Way and Andromeda you were eleven point eight ish can tell Ian kilometers away from Earth and away from anything else for that matter so let's take her space it off here boom done you're in a vacuum but nothing happens at first at all you aren't instantly frozen you didn't explode you're just floating and you can still see things you can still move around so what's missing well oxygen your body is still functioning normally at this point internally but it needs o to and don't try holding your breath and forcing your mouth to stay closed space comm points out that doing so would result in your lungs expanding and finally exploding try this at your own risk if you're up for a challenge close your mouth and force as much air as you possibly can out through your nose essentially deflating your lungs and then just when you think you can't deflate your lungs anymore keep going don't don't go until you pass out but you get the point even when you feel like you have no more air to expel keep going and that is exactly what space would feel like on your lungs just picture them shrinking shrinking a lot but as your long shrink your body itself will begin to expand slowly like a balloon to twice its size nitrogen in your blood does the same thing oxygen would if you tried to hold your breath it expands essentially boiling points of fluids within your vessels reduce things that should be in the liquid state within your body turn into gases a NASA test subject in 1965 was exposed to near vacuum conditions and reported that before he ended up passing out about 14 seconds in that the saliva on his tongue and in his mouth began to boy so yeah not good so first your hands then your feet then the rest of your body would all expand but not to worry that is not what kills you and no it's not the temperature of space either we've all been told that space is cold very cold and that's accurate but only on a molecular level simply put there isn't enough convection and molecular conduction in space to freeze you quick enough it would take several minutes two hours before your skin even show the first signs of frostbite as a result of temperature in space your body's radiating losing heat but not at a fast enough pace to kill you first that my friends is thanks to asphyxiation asphyxiation remember the thing about lungs they don't like vacuums because in that kind of environment they cannot hold oxygen no oxygen no organ function first your brain then your other vital organs after roughly 20 seconds of deep space exposure you've blacked out and another minute after that you're you're dead so no you won't immediately freeze you won't immediately explode and you won't immediately boil you'll just slowly suffocate to death and in space no one can hear you scream a sci-fi movie got that right there's two empty or there's not enough molecules this is science to do thanks for learning with us did I do that in under four minutes