• Question: How cold is it in space? Could we of survived if we had oxygen?

    Asked by gab2000 to Bob, Katie, Nisha, Sallie, Vee on 4 Jul 2012.
    • Photo: Bob Bonwick

      Bob Bonwick answered on 4 Jul 2012:

      3 degrees above absolute zero and no, we would die long before we got close to that temperature.

    • Photo: Sallie Baxendale

      Sallie Baxendale answered on 4 Jul 2012:

      Really really cold – we would freeze solid in an instant so couldn’t survive at all

    • Photo: Katie McDonald

      Katie McDonald answered on 5 Jul 2012:

      Yes, it’s very, very cold. -270 degrees Celcius, which as Bob says is only three above absolute zero. (Absolute zero is where it’s so cold even all the electrons would stop spinning and matter would fall apart – some labs have tried to get there and been very, very close!)

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