I was just thinking about something similar, that I would like to spend my last month of life by being launched into space in a pressurized coffin, I think that it would be amazing and it would complete my life.
Yes, in a space suit may be even faster! bacteria naturally present in and on the body before death start to decompose the body and generate gases and in an air tight space suit they will stay there! but after a while it will build up pressure and most likely.... explode. then who knows xD sweet question!
Your body would lose all gases pretty quickly and freeze solid in the process. Unless the body came close to a star it would then last near indefinitelly.
Since there is no oxygen in space, the environment cannot support aerobic bacteria, and it is the aerobic bacteria, not the anaerobic bacteria, that cause decomposition. Without aerobic bacteria, you mummify, not decompose.
do you think there's microorganism in our body. answer is yes. there's no oxygen in outer space but there are micro organism called "anaerobic" who can survive with out oxygen so that kind of organism is the one who make your body decay in the outer space.
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I was just thinking about something similar, that I would like to spend my last month of life by being launched into space in a pressurized coffin, I think that it would be amazing and it would complete my life.
Yes, in a space suit may be even faster! bacteria naturally present in and on the body before death start to decompose the body and generate gases and in an air tight space suit they will stay there! but after a while it will build up pressure and most likely.... explode. then who knows xD sweet question!
Your body would lose all gases pretty quickly and freeze solid in the process. Unless the body came close to a star it would then last near indefinitelly.
Since there is no oxygen in space, the environment cannot support aerobic bacteria, and it is the aerobic bacteria, not the anaerobic bacteria, that cause decomposition. Without aerobic bacteria, you mummify, not decompose.
do you think there's microorganism in our body. answer is yes. there's no oxygen in outer space but there are micro organism called "anaerobic" who can survive with out oxygen so that kind of organism is the one who make your body decay in the outer space.
You would dehydrate wither up and turn into s piece a black carbon.
You would explode because there's no atmospheric pressure and cosmic radiation would fry you!
Your body would implode and turn into debris, so yes, I do believe.
not like it would on earth
no