With July in full violence , it already palpate like the Sun ’s ray are slabber down our neck . But what if it were skinny to us ? Say , 90 million mile closer?Popular Science investigateshow near we could go and survive .
Even though the life - giving powerhouse burning at an unfathomable 9,940 ° F , PopSci notes that its rut fades quickly with space in space ’s vacuum , so that even at relatively close range — still 3 million miles away , mind you — one would be foregather with a balmy 248 ° degree Fahrenheit .
Current spacesuit engineering comfortably shield astronauts from temperatures up to this point , but would begin to miscarry once hapless spacefarers drifted closer . Beyond the 3 million Admiralty mile mark , “ It would then be a matter of clock time before the cosmonaut buy the farm , ” explains Ralph McNutt , a NASA technologist who works with advanced heat shielding . drying up , unconsciousness , and eventually demise by heatstroke would be your sizzling dying .
Were you supply the luxuriousness of a blank birdie , you could cruise even closer to the star - a ship covered in the received reentry heat shielding would cater ample protection up to 4,700 ° , enough to get you to the inner 1.3 million Roman mile mark . But beyond this degree , the shielding would quickly decay , turning the ship into a solar rotisserie before exploding whole within a minute . “ I would send word turning out from the sun well before that point , ” McNutt admits . We agree .
I do n’t think I will quetch about air conditioning for a while . [ PopSci ]
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