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What will happen to an egg if it is sent to space?
Question Date: 2011-11-23
Answer 1:

Good question - I'm pretty sure that eggs are not airtight, which would mean that gasses inside the egg (like water vapor) would get out. I doubt that the egg would explode, though, for much the same reason that people don't explode if suddenly exposed to hard vacuum: it's made of tougher stuff, able to maintain enough pressure internally to prevent the water inside from vaporizing violently.



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