reallyreallyreallytrying on Tumblr "everyone knows that space is very cold, and the sun is very very hot. so i assume there's a bit of space kind of near the sun which is just right. balmy space". porcupine-girl replies "Yes, that's. That's where we are."
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[–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

Yeah, that's kinda why it's cold. Cold is just an absense of heat.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    Cold is the absence of heat in a medium that can interact with temperature imo. It certainly wouldn't act like normal cold; if you stuck your hand out and felt the vaccuum, it wouldn't feel cold, and the heat in your hand would not flow outwards into space very much. There's no convection, only radiation. Space isn't cold, matter is cold, and there's no matter.

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