What actually happens to your body when your in space with no protective gear?

Question

What actually happens to your body when your in space with no protective gear?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

You could probably survive for 2 minutes on holding your breath

But it is no use because it is like a vacuum and your lungs are completely pressed which forces the air to leak out.

Answer 3

It would rapidly dry out and mummify,it would look like a piece of black leather and stay that way till it finally dissipated and disappeared.

Answer 4

It would freeze

Answer 5

You can also read it here:

http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_as...

If you stay out too long, you do die (lack of oxygen) but you don't explode or go into gory blood-boiling or eye popping stuff (unless you insist on holding your breath too much, in which case the air in your lungs will push outwards.

Answer 6

With no atmospheric pressure, water will not stay at a liquid state. If ice in space is warmed it will sublimate, that is, go directly from a solid to a gaseous state having no liquid form during transition.

The human body is already warm so when exposed to space, all the water in your body would begin boiling. As the liquid turns to gas, every cell would rupture from the pressure. I don’t know if you would explode, but your life would end within a second. You would not have time to die by suffocating or freezing.

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Answer 7

like placing yourself in a vacuum

Answer 8

You die...