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From: demillo@uwmacc.UUCP (Rob DeMillo)
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Subject: Re: Survival in vacuum
Message-ID: <1759@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Dec-85 22:15:50 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec  4 22:15:50 1985
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> In article <341@mmm.UUCP> cipher@mmm.UUCP (Andre Guirard) writes:
> >Time Lords and even mere human beings do NOT explode when exposed to vacuum,
> >  A greater danger is the temperature.
> 
>   Vacuum is an excellent insulator.  

Yup. It is, the entity would probably cook from radiation much faster...
which brings up a much grater danger: 

    If the being didn't explode from explosive decompression (an
       issue which is still not clear)

                and

    If the being did not at least have the bends and/or every organ in
       its body ruptured from escaping gases

                and
  
    If the being were not fried by heat radiation at least...

                then

    The being would be freeze-dried as every drop of liquid in
       its system boiled away....


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