Space is NOT Cold: It Actually Takes 45 Minutes to Freeze with NO Spacesuit

Space is a vacuum so despite the scientific temp, there is no medium to transfer the heat away from your body except electromagnet transfer via infrared emission and this is very inefficient. On earth you have billions of air molecules striking you and pulling heat away or transfering to you every second. In space there is no medium to pull the heat away.

In fact, you would die of asphyxiation in about 120 seconds but it would actually take about 45 min to freeze your body solid if you were ejected naked into space.








If you ever find yourself exposed to the near vacuum of space, so long as you don’t try to hold your breath, which would result in your lungs rupturing and thus pretty well guaranteed that the incident would be fatal, you’ll likely remain conscious for about 10-15 seconds, with perhaps half that being useful consciousness. After that, you’ll be fine as long as you’re placed back in a pressurized environment within about 90-180 seconds

[link to www.todayifoundout.com]