What Would Happen to Your Body in Space?

Every Little Thing

Gimlet

Comedy, Education, Science

4.6 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Flora finds out what would happen if she stepped into the vacuum of outer space. Then, an (Earth) vacuum paradox to end all paradoxes: which came first, the vacuum or the carpet? To find a list of our sponsors and show-related promo codes, go to gimlet.fm/sponsors Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thank you for calling the Every Little Thing Helpline.
0:05.0	Thank you, Molly for calling the Every Little Thing Helpline.
0:09.0	Hi, Laura, this is Molly.
0:10.0	Molly had a question about outer space and poultry.
0:15.0	I have a question about space.
0:17.8	What would happen if a body was in space? And we don't have to do that to a body perhaps we could just toss a chicken
0:27.0	breath of the space station. What would happen when a body was out in the brand open air. I'm dying to know.
0:40.0	Oh, you die. You die. You die.
0:45.0	You die. You die.
0:48.0	You die.
0:49.0	Yeah, horribly.
0:51.0	Disgustingly. Unpleasantly.
0:54.0	Molly, meet Paul.
0:55.0	I'm an astrophysicist at the Ohio State University.
0:59.0	Why so disgusting and why so horrible?
1:01.0	Like is it worse than drowning or burning?
1:05.3	I think you're asking the right questions.
1:08.0	Like, death is the destination, but when you're exposed to a vacuum,
1:12.8	a matterless, pressureless void,
1:15.7	the story's really about the journey.
1:17.3	Yeah, the journey towards death, exactly.
1:20.1	Don't worry, I mean, we're gonna get
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