What might happen if a body encounters the vacuum of space? Through multiple experiments and a couple of real-life accidents, we know more about how a person would die — and it doesn't look nearly as dramatic as science fiction would have you believe.

Concepts

outer space, conduction, boiling points, pressure, human body systems

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• Share a few movie clips of a human getting exposed to the vacuum of space before showing this video
• After the video, encourage scholars to find examples in literature and see which is most accurate and which is the most amusingly wrong

Classroom Considerations

• Preview the comment sections

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• Entertaining video easily maintains the attention of viewers
• Does not include any graphic images or clips

Cons

• None