What Would Happen If An Astronaut Floated Away Into Space?

[Professor Emeritus]

My physics are a bit dusty but in order to orbit the earth wed be pullin gs our body cannot withstand...

Not to mention you would likely be shredded by space trash

Id love to do it to if i had to go out

Honestly tho, and ive thought of this before but im not sure my psyche could even withstand the thought of BEING OF THE EARTH...what a trip

I think your physics are dusty. Wouldn't orbiting around the Earth by yourself be the same G's as orbiting the Earth inside anything else? You don't got any air resistance to worry about, so the speed and accelerations should be the same.

That first piece of space junk to tear through your suit though...

 

[Dirty Mcdrawz]

I'm sure it would look spectacular looking at earth, but I'd probably hyperventilate and die screaming out of loneliness and frustration.

 

[hashmander]

jetpacks do exist

Not going lie, I wouldn't mind dying, orbiting around the earth for like 8 hours. There's clearly worse ways to die

a nice rich person's way to go out on your own terms. if that was some kind of industry in the future and i had the money i'd pay for it.

 

[Poh SIti Dawn]

Crazy to think u gotta have that much power to even break the orbital field to carry on and enter another.

 

[Prince.Skeletor]

Video is WRONGGGG
This is what would happen

 

[hayesc0]

But we have never been to space the earth is covered by a dome and its flat

 

[DrBanneker]

I think your physics are dusty. Wouldn't orbiting around the Earth by yourself be the same G's as orbiting the Earth inside anything else? You don't got any air resistance to worry about, so the speed and accelerations should be the same.

That first piece of space junk to tear through your suit though...

This. Your acceleration is the same as you would be in a space ship in orbit which is related to the gravity of the Earth. At those higher altitudes the gravity of the Earth is less so you would be under less than 1g acceleration and it would be directed towards the Earth, not parallel to you. You would have a high velocity though, probably around 10,000 to 15,000 mph relative to Earth depending on where you are in orbit. If you hit a piece of junk going relatively slower, or worse, in the opposite direction you are fukked.