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You and your fart will die
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Ha! This was a good place for a Uranus joke!
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First, you would DIE, in under two minutes. NO AIR to breathe and no air pressure to make your lungs work means you lose consciousness quickly. You would hear nothing since it takes air to make your eardrums work. In the movie Gravity, when Ryan enters the ISS and re-pressurizes the airlock, you hear the sounds pick up as the air pressure increases. You can hear the alarms and other sounds. You would make no sound as it takes air for your larynx to work. No air means no motion of your eardrums, means silence. As your muscles relax after death, any gas inside your body will expand and make its way OUT, where it dissipates into the almost nothingness of space. Where ever gas leaves your body, it will act like a thruster and you would move as a result in direct proportion to the amount of gas released. Equal and opposite reaction and all that. No sound. No smell. Nothing but a small dissipating cloud of methane gas. Shortly after you die (stop generating internal heat), your body will start to freeze, eyeballs first. All life, bacteria and such die with you. So, no, you will not rot away. Instead, you will start the process of freeze drying, which will take a while, but eventually, you will be a dried out husk which looks much like an Egyptian mummy without any wrappings. You would not implode or explode. You would simply die and freeze solid shortly thereafter. There were studies done when the Concorde was flying involving "explosive decompression" at high altitudes. In other words, what to do if a window blows out at 100,000 feet? The aircraft would have to dive as fast as possible to get down to 10,000 feet where people can breathe without artificial means. That little yellow drop down mask is only good for a few MINUTES and then only under 50,000 feet to get to 10,000 feet. The problem at 100,000 feet is you can't get down fast enough to survive. You will be brain dead in about 120 seconds, but your body will still be alive. A Concorde with a blowout at 100,000 would land with a whole lot of brain dead passengers. They never DID come up with a casualty action for a blowout at altitude. Part of the studies was to actually use live animals in a vacuum tank and blow out a window and see what happened. Pretty much nothing. The animals just died in short order from lack of O2, but were otherwise intact. Explosive decompression will NOT make a body explode, no matter how many times they show it in science fiction movies. A more realistic effect can be seen in the movie "2001" where at one point Dave, in a space pod in a space suit without a helmet, blows a hatch and flies over the gap to an open airlock, which he closes and re-pressurizes. Total time in vacuum, about 20 seconds. Very realistic. NASA admits this would be possible, though difficult. You CAN hold your breath for a few seconds against a vacuum if you work at it like fighter pilots do when the strain to fight G forces.