• neatchee@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    “Asphyxiation, hypothermia, starvation, self-harm…Asphyxiation, hypothermia, starvation, self-harm…Asphyxiation, hypothermia, starvation, self-harm… Dammit this is a difficult choice…”

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      9 months ago

      Asphyxiation is 10-15 seconds in the vacuum of space. The others are significantly longer.

      Just saying.

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        9 months ago

        Hypothermia is supposed to be nice once you get past the shivering. You feel warm (even kinda hot), the fall asleep and don’t wake up.

        Asphyxia would be so quick though, but I’m not sure how blood boiling in zero atmosphere would feel.

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          You don’t think the billions of tons of rock are going to spread out? :p

          Seriously though, we see shockwaves from exploding stars affecting the material around them. I don’t know the mechanics of what is causing it or how it spreads, but it does.

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            I think they would maintain their orbital path or be moved in the direction of the impact (obviously a mix)

            But that’s a debris field, not a shock wave

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                Interestingly, probably not! When the moon formed it was MUCH closer to earth. The moon is ever so slowly moving away from the planet, bit by bit. So a fresh debris field from a sufficiently similar impact wouldn’t reach as far as the moon is today