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by hanniabu 521 days ago
Could be useful in space where those are the default conditions
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Space is a fantastic insulator. Space suits for astronauts have to be cooled, not heated.
I think it’s more appropriate to say conduction and convection doesn’t work well. When you have a suit, it’s meant to block radiation and that’s the mode of heat transfer in space. If space was a fantastic insulator, the suit itself would eventually overheat since you have to remove the heat somehow (they boil off water in vacuum similar to sweat).