• Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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    10 hours ago

    I just did the maths in another post. It’s surprisingly fast! 10 minutes till you die, under 20 till you freeze. Assuming perfect heat conduction and no increased energy generation from shivering or panicking, which probably won’t make much of a difference.

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      10 hours ago

      I presume a person would curl up into a ball to preserve heat which would reduce the effective skin surface area. But that is still quite fast

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        7 hours ago

        I did the maths three times, because I was sure I got it wrong, but on Earth you get a LOT of energy from the radiation of stuff around you. I never really thought about that.