Good to know! I didn’t realize humans would radiate heat so much, I wrongly assumed it was more convective and relied on atmosphere
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Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 12 hours agoIf you could somehow prevent yourself from dying due to lack of pressure, you would radiate about 650W more than you generate.
That’s using the Stefan Boltzmann law, at normal body temp, perfect blackbody and 1.5m2 of skin. And then assuming 2000kcal a day.
You’d cool down pretty quickly.
Mesophar@pawb.social 5 hours ago
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
So how long do I have? Also, if you guys could hurry with the answer…?
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
I can’t really find a good number for how cold you can get and not die, so let’s say 20 degrees. That gives 16 degrees.
Meat has a specific heat of about 3.5kJ per kilo per degree, so say you weigh 70kg, that’s about 4 million joules to lose before you die.
At 650 joules per second, you’ve got slightly over 10 minutes.
bobo@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
My man, first of all
4,000,000/650/60=102.57 minutes
And that’s with your math based on an imaginary object. A body is going to lose heat far more slowly.
Also, you forgot one important aspect, if you’re getting bathed by the sun and spinning, you’re constantly getting heated up.
Zwiebel@feddit.org 10 hours ago
Your skin isn’t at core temp tho, so the loss rate should be lower I think
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
At that point, you’ll have to calculate the heat transport of the human body, and answer questions like “how long can a person live with frozen skin” and other fun questions I’m not equipped to answer.