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...in what proximity would you have to be to the sun and how fast would you have to be spinning (like a rotisserie chicken) so that your light side didn't burn and your dark side didn't freeze; rotating just enough to keep a relatively stable temperature?

Absolutely absurd, I know but this question somehow popped into my head and won't leave. ๐Ÿ˜†๐Ÿ”๐Ÿ”ฅ๐ŸงŠ

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Boiling/freezing depends on pressure as well as temperature, I think water would actually turn into steam if sprayed into space. There's a story of a spacesuit technician being accidentally exposed to a vacuum and he says his last memory is feeling the saliva bubble on his tongue.

https://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/aerospace-engineering/space-suit-design/early-spacesuit-vacuum-test-wrong/

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

It will do both. The initial boiling will draw heat away from the other molecules, eventually freezing them. So I suppose it wold depend on how fine the spray pattern is as well as the beginning temperature as to how much goes to gas vs. solid.