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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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im3w1l ◴[] No.44358464[source]
Okay this may sound silly but what about a solar powered ac for cooling? Like solar radiation is 6000K right, so if you used that to pump your waste heat into say a 1000K radiator (aimed away from the sun obviously) I'm thinking it might give you plenty of negentropy but also radiate away heat at a decent pace.
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