If you die and are launched into space, what happens to your body? Does it decompose or turn into a star?

With the increasing development of science and technology in various countries, many countries have realized the desire to enter space. Human exploration has been going on, and currently, nearly 600 people around the world have gone into space, but exploration is a great and dangerous undertaking, and the process is not always smooth. So far, 19 people have died while on missions. So what do the remains go through when you die in space?

People who died in space

In fact, of the 19 people who died, only 3 died in space, while most of the others died during the rocket launch or landing phase. These 3 people had logged on to the world's first space station on Soyuz 11, however, the mission failed during the return flight. But these 3 astronauts were not exiled to space, but simply died of suffocation due to a lack of air when the spacecraft entered the atmosphere as a result of the cabin's environment turning into a vacuum instantly due to the mishandling of decompression during the mission.

So strictly speaking, no human bodies are floating in space at the moment. So if people float in space for a long time, what will they experience? Will still live a few years like the character played by Shen Teng in the movie "Doktor Moon"?

Many people believe that there is more radiation in space, so in the absence of any protective measures and other conditions, humans just exposed to space will be unable to withstand the high intensity of air pressure and self-destruct. In fact, in the 1960s, there were scientists experimented on this idea. They took animals as experimental subjects, and put them into a very high air pressure chamber, by gradually increasing the air pressure to observe the physical changes in the animals. They found that in fact, the animals did not because high pressure led to changes in shape, not to mention the explosion. Only after the experiment, the internal organs of the test found a lot of damage.

If a person is exposed to space will not die in a short time, because human blood circulation also takes time, about 15 seconds. In this process, the human consciousness will slowly disappear, after all, we need to breathe, but with the enhancement of air pressure, human breathing will also become exceptionally difficult.

Our lungs then expand, eventually causing damage, and this damage is also irreversible. If we expose our body to outer space for 20 seconds, we will have a lot of sweat on our body, plus the high intensity of radiation will also burn our skin, making people feel pain. But even if the heat in space is very low, the heat of the body will not disappear with it. What is certain is that we will die from suffocation. What happens to a body that dies in space?

1, will decompose?

So after death, the body floating in space will also decay? The environment in space is almost a vacuum, but due to the presence of more microbiota in your body, the high air pressure in space will make the body lose water very quickly, and the body will freeze quickly in extreme environmental conditions. At the same time, the microbiota in our body is frozen to death. In space, the human body generally will not decay, but if the body in the case of exposure to the sun, without the protection of the atmosphere, will be subject to strong direct sunlight, the body will also be scorched, and this microbiota will also be burned to death.

Astronauts die in space because of unexpected circumstances, in theory, their spacesuits, because they are made of special materials, will also protect their bodies for some time, the temperature of the body will give a safer environment for the microbiota, which will decay. But in reality go, the current spacesuits of various countries can only support the astronauts outside the cabin for just a few hours. So in practice, the suits are unlikely to hold up to the decay of the microbiota.

2、If launched into space after death, will it become a star?

The body itself into stars is impossible, but can be artificially assisted. At present, space funeral technology is also developing. The Chinese Academy of Sciences specializes in space burial through satellites, after the death of a person will provide about a gram of very small urn, and then the box to the sky with a satellite. It also has a special App, when the satellite passed from the sky, the App will prompt you who is flying from the sky. The cost of this is also only about $2000, cheaper than the cemetery.

3、Where will the dead body float to after death?

In a nutshell, human bodies generally do not decay in space, but where will they float to? Will it become the origin of life on other planets?

This answer is rather broad. If the corpse is in near-Earth orbit, then because the Earth will have a gravitational pull, the corpse will fall back to Earth, that is, return to its roots. Of course, the possibility of them being shot down by artificial satellites is not excluded. Some will also be burned to ashes by the heat of the sun.

Under the action of the sun, electric ions impact smaller molecules and let them drift in the vastness of the universe, which will also become the infinite expanse of the universe of dust. But scientists have also found meteorites from Mercury and Mars on Earth. Some people may not understand how meteorites can fall to Earth when the planets have strong gravitational force.

This is because there are countless asteroids in the solar system, they wandered in space for thousands of years, and just a little probability let them hit the planets, the planets were smashed by small particles ejected into space, and these small particles also drifted in space, but also because of some small probability and fell to the Earth as a meteorite.

Then the same, if people die after being launched into space, the human body is in the process of drifting because of the small probability of falling to other planets, it is not possible, ah, but in fact, this requirement for the body is also relatively large. The first is that they can not fall very fast, otherwise, it will be like a meteor because of friction and combustion, there is also the landing planet that needs to have water and an atmosphere. After all, water is the place where life is born, carbon-based life can not have oxygen, can not have sunlight, but must have water this is the most basic condition.

When the body is physically destroyed, the organic matter released from his body these substances or will undergo a magical reaction to form new forms of life, thus evolving into civilizations on other planets.

Of course, this hypothesis is only an ideal situation, the real situation may be their bodies will be floating in space for thousands of years hundreds of millions of years will not encounter a star. The density of the universe is very sparse, the closest planet to us also has 4.2 light years, according to the speed of escape from the solar system to the third universe, the body will have to drift 75,800 years to reach, and this escape process must be accurate.

So if a human body is launched into space for a space burial, then its destination should be to keep floating. The probability of becoming the origin of life on other planets is almost zero. But the universe is so big chance coincidence, who can say the right thing? The current level of human technology is also limited, and can not figure out all the things in the universe, the possibilities are also infinite but believe that one day we will know the exact answer to this question.