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« on: July 08, 2010, 11:09:22 AM »
1.) Despite common misnomers, oxygen isn't a fuel, it's oxygen. We collectively call when a fuel combines with oxygen, which often has a large release of heat, fire.
2.) It's in a cabin with someone without a space helmet on, there's plenty of oxygen for a fire, and heat is something which is applied in relatively high amounts to feed the activation energy to make fire (such as a match), or else everybody would be on fire...
3.) The temperature in space is very cold, unless you are being hit by molecules from the solar wind, which are very hot. Earth is protected from the harmful effects of the solar wind by our magnetic core. With is what creates the northern and southern light. Earth is heated by light and other bands electromagnetic spectrum.
4.) I'm in the same boat as Nimbus wondering why I have to reapply, though I probably really should get working on my app...
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