Exploring space is fascinating, but it is also absolutely damn terrifying. For proof of this, we turn to recently Popular science video this explains what happens to the human body when someone dies in space.
In short, it is… not great. The video shows what would happen if an astronaut working on the International Space Station suit was pierced by a micrometeorite, presenting this as one of the most likely reasons why someone would die in the cold and indifferent void. After only 15 seconds, they would lose consciousness, then die of “suffocation or decompression” before body froze. “10 seconds of exposure to the vacuum of space would force the water in their skin and blood to vaporize as their bodies extended outward like a balloon,” says the narrator. “Their lungs would collapse and after 30 seconds they would be paralyzed if they were not already dead.”
Beyond the facts of death itself, the video also touches on the puzzling fact that space corpses should be stored in a lock or thrown away. Tthe body would be Follow the path of a shuttle, clinging nearby like a terrible ghost.
Fortunately, as the video notes, not many people actually went to the great beyond to the great beyond space. So far, only three people have died beyond Earth’s atmosphere. (Several were killed in missile accidents.) Cheerfully, the narrator says that this is likely to change, as space missions aim to send people to Mars, where “individuals could be trapped or even perish, whether they are on the road, while living in harsh environments. or at some other point in the mission. “
All these details seem a sufficient motivation for humanity to continue its activity by creating alternative types of astronauts – the most suitable for the dangers of space. ITto say Vyommitra, the robotic astronaut of India, or immortal OT-VIII demigod, Tom Cruise.
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