I've got nothing serious to add here either, but in the spirit of chiming in I'll turn on one of my own, Alien-style.
Actually, the main dangers of exposure to the vacuum of space are oxygen related. The obvious one is the lack of any to breathe, which would cause death in a matter of minutes, but another less well known effect (unless you're a SCUBA diver) is pulmonary barotrauma, one manifestation of which involves a lungful of deeply held breath rapidly expanding to a greater volume than your lungs can contain. Not, I would imagine, particularly pleasant.
Other than that, exposure to a hard vacuum is rather unremarkable. The human skin and circulatory system are remarkably good at maintaining a constant survivable pressure, so exploding isn't an option. Nor is blood boiling in your veins, which you didn't mention but is widely held. As for freezing: heat doesn't radiate away from a body in space all that quickly. You will freeze, eventually, but surprisingly the biggest hazard in this area is one hell of a sunburn. Incidentally, JC wouldn't necessarily go floating off towards the Sun unless he was already heading in that general direction.
You might have a point with the neutrinos, at least the non-alt-rock-band ones; but then to the best of my knowledge the odds of enough of them colliding with the atoms - which are primarily empty space, remember - in a body to do any appreciable damage are probably astronomical raised to the power of many orders of magnitude. That's why there's all those underground detectors trying to find enough of them to analyse.
To sum up: If JC ever did fly up into space, then barring accidents or spectacular but short-lived re-entry, his frozen and dessicated corpse ought to be still around somewhere.
(May 20, 2012 at 5:09 am)Creed of Heresy Wrote: Unless Jesus floated into space...which is not possible because in space, the human body suffers about a dozen catastrophic failures. And Jesus, if I recall correctly, was the mortal-born son of god, and he was a human, with human physiology, so...he probably instantly froze, was bombarded by neutrino particles thus destroying his atomic structure, his body was rent asunder by the absolute vacuum, and inevitably he probably floated into the sun and was absolutely annihilated by the high heat given by the fusion process of the sun.
Actually, the main dangers of exposure to the vacuum of space are oxygen related. The obvious one is the lack of any to breathe, which would cause death in a matter of minutes, but another less well known effect (unless you're a SCUBA diver) is pulmonary barotrauma, one manifestation of which involves a lungful of deeply held breath rapidly expanding to a greater volume than your lungs can contain. Not, I would imagine, particularly pleasant.
Other than that, exposure to a hard vacuum is rather unremarkable. The human skin and circulatory system are remarkably good at maintaining a constant survivable pressure, so exploding isn't an option. Nor is blood boiling in your veins, which you didn't mention but is widely held. As for freezing: heat doesn't radiate away from a body in space all that quickly. You will freeze, eventually, but surprisingly the biggest hazard in this area is one hell of a sunburn. Incidentally, JC wouldn't necessarily go floating off towards the Sun unless he was already heading in that general direction.
You might have a point with the neutrinos, at least the non-alt-rock-band ones; but then to the best of my knowledge the odds of enough of them colliding with the atoms - which are primarily empty space, remember - in a body to do any appreciable damage are probably astronomical raised to the power of many orders of magnitude. That's why there's all those underground detectors trying to find enough of them to analyse.
To sum up: If JC ever did fly up into space, then barring accidents or spectacular but short-lived re-entry, his frozen and dessicated corpse ought to be still around somewhere.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
