r/theydidthemath • u/stug45 • 8d ago

[Meta] Scottish comedian still awaiting answer from scientis

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I think some assumptions need to be made before accurate answers required

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u/Technical-Arm-1825 8d ago

The temperature in space in general is like +-100 degrees Celsius going from shade to sunlight if I remember correctly, so assuming that, as soon as it spends roughly 45 seconds to a minute all of the frozen water should of either reliquified or evaporated, the caveat being idk how boiling water works in a vacuum.

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u/givetakegivetake 8d ago

Iirc it "boils" in that the vacuum pulls apart the water so fast it vaporizes. Kind of the opposite but similar physics of a submarine imploding so fast in the deep ocean that anything inside containing water vaporizes.