Eight Ways James Webb Space Telescopes Give Me An Existential Crisis

If you are suddenly taken to Lagrange Point 2, in the vast empty space right next to the web, you will not die immediately. Your skin is strong enough to withstand the pressure difference between Earth and deep space, so you won’t explode. It won’t freeze immediately — sSince the pace is vacuum, it slowly loses heat.

Instead, you will have some time there.Not so many because I can’t breathe, but maybe 15 seconds of consciousnessEnough time to really think about your situation, before you die completely a few minutes after blacking out. The last thing you will experience will be your own saliva boiling in your mouth.

We know this As it actually happened to astronaut Jim Le Blanc in 1966. Leblanc was exposed to a full space vacuum for about 30 seconds when the spacesuit he was testing in a vacuum chamber caused a leak. He survived unharmed They pulled him out immediately, but Leblanc said he felt the spit on his tongue boil before he turned black. (He also said he had earache.)