Post originally by Chirikh at 2005-02-01 11:42:31
Converted from Phorums BB System

Yeah, but that's the average between the galaxies, which is -most- of the universe. It's 'warmer' near stars. The point, though, is that space is a -vacuum- and you don't lose heat except by radiating, which is pretty low efficiency. The big problem is that you have massive evaporation/boiling off of body fluids in the vacuum which sucks heat out of the victim in the process of freeze-drying them. This process can actually cool the victim -below- the ambient local vacuum temperature in the early stages, until all the volatiles have, umm, volatized.