• tensorpudding@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    This is not completely correct though. It is our atmosphere/albedo/geological and natural processes that help maintain consistently livable temperatures, not just living in the habitable zone. No atmosphere? We’d be like the Moon, where it is too hot in sunlight and too cold in shade despite being similarly far from the sun as Earth.

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      14 hours ago

      Also its not true that space is “very very cold”.

      If you are in space wearing space suite that doesn’t radiate heat properly, you could die from the excessive heat. Once dead your body stops producing heat and the existing heat eventually radiate away and your body freeze.

      Space is neither hot or cold because these are property of matter. Since space has very little atoms, it technically has no temperature.