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rdean
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You are clo9ser to the truth than Old Rocks, but I will be nicer to you because you do not claim any expertise in science.
The temperature of space between the Earth and the Sun is warmer that the space between Mars and the Sun. The reason the Earth is warmer than the space surrounding it is because the Earth is denser, and has a layer that serves as a blanket to insulate it from the colder space. Additionally, the Earth is warmed internally, which has a small, but significant, effect on the temperature.
The very fact that heat moves through space at all proves it is not a vacuum, because a perfect vacuum would be perfect insulation.
Funny little fact.....the closer you get to a vacuum the lower the boiling temperature of water. Try pulling a vacuum on a half full jar of water and you can get it to boil at room temp. I believe this is why your blood boils when you enter space without a pressurized suit.
PudWhistler...you are an idiot. The "boiling" you are refering to is not HOT or any warmer than the ambient temperature within your partial vacume example.
At first, I thought they same thing, PudWhistle being an idiot, but then, if you think about it, it could be considered a matter of perspective. Divers who decompress too quickly develop bubbles of nitrogen in their blood stream. Boiling is releasing steam which, even though are "water vapor", they are still bubbles of gas. So from his perspective, bubbles of gas are a byproduct of boiling. It may not be a "scientific" explanation, that doesn't mean it's entirely wrong.