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mlhpdx ◴[] No.44357730[source]
It’s very odd to think of something extremely hot but with almost no density, and therefore very little heat transfer.
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jordanb ◴[] No.44357945[source]
That's actually most of space. Space is a very hot environment, especially where we are so close to the sun. Think about it. When you stand outside in the sun you heat up. All that heat is coming from the sun. But a lot of it was filtered by the atmosphere, so if you're in space near earth it will be hotter than standing at the equator on a sunny day, in terms of radiation.

Then there's the fact that heat is very difficult to get rid of when in space. The ISS's radiators are much bigger than its solar panels. If you wanted to have a very-long eva spacesuit you'd have to have radiators much bigger than your body hanging off of it. Short evas are handled by starting the eva with cold liquids in the suit and letting them heat up.

All of the mockups of starships going to Mars mostly fail to represent where they're going to put the radiators to get rid of all the excess heat.

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cma ◴[] No.44358215[source]
But boiling water is just a few hundred Kelvin, this is tens of thousands. Would EVA spacesuits be able to radiate that much away if it was really that hot but for the atmosphere absorbing some?

I know it is much hotter, but that's way way hotter and they only find it at a "wall" way farther out.

This is more the temperature of the solar wind, dwarfing the steady state temperature you'd reach from the photonic solar radiation at any distance. The Sun's blackbody varies from like 5000K to 7000K, you won't see objects heated in the solar system heated higher than that even with full reflectors covering the field of view of the rear with more sun and being near the surface of the sun, other than a tiny amount higher from stellar wind, tidal friction, or nuclear radiation from the object's own material I don't think.

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1. semi-extrinsic ◴[] No.44358564[source]
At this low density, temperature is very different from what you are used to experiencing. You have to work through a heat flux balance to really get a grasp of it.

Temperature is just the heat of particles moving. In the extreme case of a handful of N2 molecules moving at 1% the speed of light, it has a temperature of something like 9 billion Kelvin. But it's not going to heat you up if it hits you.

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2. cma ◴[] No.44372317[source]
Even at low density, if it were a large volume, solid objects would heat up to that ambient temp. But this one is a minor volume and you would still be radiating it away much faster and not reach anywhere near the ambient temperature. In the middle of a large volume thoigh, you'd get too much incoming thermal radiation from particles within the volume and not be able to shed heat anywhere through radiation.