…in what proximity would you have to be to the sun and how fast would you have to be spinning (like a rotisserie chicken) so that your light side didn’t burn and your dark side didn’t freeze; rotating just enough to keep a relatively stable temperature?

Absolutely absurd, I know but this question somehow popped into my head and won’t leave. 😆🐔🔥🧊

  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    It’s not minus hundreds of degrees, it’s body temperature. Vacuum has no temperature, and it’s an insulator, not a conductor.

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      8 hours ago

      That makes perfect sense to me on paper. It still makes my head spin thinking about though lol

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        3 hours ago

        I think part of the unintuitiveness is caused by our knowledge that things quickly freeze in space.

        Freezing is produced by a combination of temperature and pressure, but because the former fluctuates a lot more than the latter in our daily experience, the role of pressure isn’t part of our intuition. But in a vacuum, things freeze even at relatively high temperatures.