• Hjalmar@feddit.nu
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    1 day ago

    I’m not sure that I’ll get the English terms wrong but basically heat can move in three ways:

    • By convection, aka liquids and gases moving around when theire heated. Obviously this doesn’t happen in space
    • By conduction, a hot thing thouches a cold one and heat transfers from hot to cold. And, this neither works in space
    • By radiaton. Hot objects radiate heat as electro magnetic waves (ie ligth). This is the only one that works in a vacuum and this process is rather slow. Also this results I the weird phenomenon that good looking people cool down faster in space since their hoter. Therefore we should only recruit bad looking astronauts, but no one seems to have figured that out
    • latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 day ago

      Thank you, this makes a lot of sense!

      Also, guess I missed my mark, would’ve been the ideal astronaut based on this! Does being dumb also help help? I mean, less going on up in the ol’ noggin, thinking energy is transferred slower that way:))) Or that I use less, which would make me fuel-efficient!=))))