Space exploration is fascinating, but also absolutely damn terrifying. As proof of this, we turn to a recent Popular science video that explains what happens to the human body when someone dies in space.
In short, it is… not good. The video outlines what would happen if an astronaut working on the International Space Station’s suit were pierced by a micrometeorite, citing this as one of the most likely reasons someone would die in the cold, indifferent emptiness. After only 15 seconds, they would lose consciousness and then die of “asphyxiation or decompression” to their body froze. “10 seconds of exposure to the vacuum of space would force the water in their skin and blood to evaporate as their bodies expand outward like a balloon,” says the narrator. “Their lungs would collapse and after 30 seconds they would be paralyzed if they weren’t dead already.”
In addition to the facts of death itself, the video also touches on the disturbing fact that space forces should be stored in an airlock or thrown overboard. T.he body would follow the trajectory of a shuttle hanging nearby like a gruesome ghost.
Fortunately, as the video points out, not many people have actually gone to the great outside of space. To date, only three people have died outside of Earth’s atmosphere. (Many more were killed in missile accidentsGleefully, the narrator says this is likely to change, as space missions aim to send humans to Mars, where “ individuals can be stranded or even perish, whether on the road, living in a difficult environment, or on another. point of mission. “
All these details seem like enough motivation for humanity to continue our work to create alternative types of astronauts – the ones better suited to the hazards of space. L.ike, let’s say, India’s robotic astronaut, Vyommitra, or immortal OT-VIII demigod, Tom Cruise
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