Surviving vacuum

[Shroom Man 777]

Holy shit, does this mean that your EYEBALLS FLY OFF?

Man, I cannot imagine what it'd be like, trying to hold your breath only that your nostrils and mouth and orifices and shit aren't airtight at all and the air is sucked out of your lungs and even your colons!

[GrandMasterTerwynn]

Holy shit, does this mean that your EYEBALLS FLY OFF?

Nah. Your eyeballs are quite firmly attached to their sockets. It just means you'll have the uncomfortable feeling of air leaking out of the corners of your eyes. Which may be eclipsed by the slightly more uncomfortable feeling of the surface of your eyeballs drying out on the account of all the water boiling off them.

Man, I cannot imagine what it'd be like, trying to hold your breath only that your nostrils and mouth and orifices and shit aren't airtight at all and the air is sucked out of your lungs and even your colons!

Which is why you don't try to hold your breath if you were ever sucked out into vacuum. You'll just make things worse if you tried.

[hongi]

You do not instantly freeze because, although the space environment is typically very cold, heat does not transfer away from a body quickly.

Is this because a medium for the heat transfer to take place in doesn't exist in vacuum?

[GrandMasterTerwynn]

You do not instantly freeze because, although the space environment is typically very cold, heat does not transfer away from a body quickly.

Is this because a medium for the heat transfer to take place in doesn't exist in vacuum?

That's right. The only way to lose heat in vacuum is by radiating it off.