J'ai lu cet article très intéressant sur l'exposition d'un être humain à l'espace. En fait j'avais fait des recherches suite à un épisode de Battlestar galactica où ils disaient qu'un être humain pouvait survivre 1 minute 30 dans le vide spatial. De prime abord j'ai pensé que c'était n'importe quoi...
L'article stipule notamment :
A few recent Hollywood films showed people instantly freezing solid when exposed to vacuum. In one of these, the scientist character mentioned that the temperature was "minus 273"-- that is, absolute zero.
But in a practical sense, space doesn't really have a temperature-- you can't measure a temperature on a vacuum, something that isn't there. The residual molecules that do exist aren't enough to have much of any effect. Space isn't "cold," it isn't "hot", it really isn't anything.
What space is, though, is a very good insulator. (In fact, vacuum is the secret behind thermos bottles.) Astronauts tend to have more problem with overheating than keeping warm.
If you were exposed to space without a spacesuit, your skin would most feel slightly cool, due to water evaporating off you skin, leading to a small amount of evaporative cooling. But you wouldn't freeze solid!
Ce qui m'intrigue c'est l'exposition direct au soleil. En imaginant que la personne subisse une décompression explosive durant une sortie extravéhiculaire, et se retrouve exposé au vide, est-ce que la chaleur du soleil lui serait fatale avant la fibrillation ?
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