Space exploration is fascinating, but it is also absolutely terrifying. For proof of this, we go to a recent Popular science video it explains what happens to the human body when someone dies in space.
In short, it is… not good. The video outlines what would happen if an astronaut working on the costume of the International Space Station was stabbed by a micrometeorite, suggesting it as one of the most likely reasons why someone would be in the cold, uncared for space die. After only 15 seconds, they lose consciousness and then die of ‘choking or decompression’ in front of them.it froze. “10 seconds of exposure to the air vacuum will force the water in their skin and blood to evaporate, while their body expands 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.”
In addition to the facts of death itself, the video also touches on the disturbing fact that spatial corpses must be stored or stored in an airlock. The body would follow the path of a shuttle and hang like a horrible ghost nearby.
Fortunately, as noted in the video, not many people went to the great exterior in the great exterior of the space. Only three people have so far died outside the Earth’s atmosphere. (Many more died in rocket accidents.) The narrator cheerfully says that this is likely to change because space missions are aimed at sending humans to Mars, where ‘individuals may be stranded or even perish, or be on their way, while living in a difficult environment, or elsewhere in the mission. ”
All these details seem to humanity enough motivation to continue creating alternative types of astronauts – better suited to the dangers of space. Las, say, India’s robot astronaut, Vyommitra, or immortal OT-VIII demigod, Tom Cruise.
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