– If you were in space and had a space suit over your entire body except for your hand, what would it do to you?

Question

I know space is a vacuum. However, if you were to be in space with a really tight seal around your body except for your hand, would that have any adverse effects on that part of your body?

In: Physics

Answer 1

Yep, you would. Space has no medium for heat transfer so your hand wouldn’t freeze immediately, but it would eventualy. The bigger concern would be decompression.

There’s a show on Netflix called Love, Death, and Robots. It’s a short story anthology series. The episode Helping Hand deals with this exactly.