@Nocturn
Oh, wow. There are forums on this site. I didn’t even know.

Either way, we’re on the same page, so we can just skip any further circlejerk on this topic.

@Bad Dragon
Oh, yeah, I know it’s slow. Like you said - nothing to dissipate the heat. But even where space is “technically incredibly hot” you will freeze. Anyway, kind of off topic from the creator’s work, and not really useful feedback for the creator, so maybe move this to the forums if you want to keep discussing it?

@Nocturn
That’s a misconception, actually.

If you die in space in a shadow (the coldest spot in space), it will take 12 hours before your body reaches 0 °C.

On Earth at -10 degrees at night, it only takes 3 hours for your body to reach 0 °C.

As you can see, even in the coldest regions of space, you’re protected against heat loss by the vacuum itself.

@Bad Dragon
Places in space have inconceivable ‘hotness’ but you will freeze solid before the radiation cooks you. Space is a harsh mistress. There’s nothing about space that likes humans except as playtoys for phase change and particle experiments.

Now I want to draw SPACE! as an MLP Alicorn. I wonder if she’d end up just looking like Tantabus though …

@dergness
Space actually isn’t cold. Because it’s a vacuum, it’s a perfect isolator; better than a hundred blankets.

As for radiating heat, she’s on the sunny side and not in the shadow, which means she’s receiving a lot of heat directly from the sun (much more than she’s emitting from her dock).

An actual problem is that the blood in her dock might start to boil (because of the lack of pressure). I’ve been exposed to a vacuum before and the blood literally slowly starts making its way through the skin. Red dots everywhere. It shouldn’t be a problem if it’s just a brief space walk though.

@dergness
Yeah, tails are hard to make look right even for a Human artist, and I think that is because they really show how much almost any space suit is a balloon that has to be compressed eveey time a joint of the wearer isn’t at its rest position (where-ever the suit-maker decided that should be). Add to that how most of the length of a horse’s tail is just hair and you end upmwith so!ething that has thre look very wrong to actually be right.

one of the few working* space suits on this booru.

*) except the tail. Guess she’ll freeze her butt off.

@Bad Dragon
Ear support in a space helmet is on par with lumbar support in a gaming chair.
Tries to nod sagely, but ends up nodding in a tarragon sort of way.

Cute helmet with ear support.