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		jcims on Nov 16, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Interstellar space even weirder than expected, NAS... If there’s 1 atom per cubic cm in interstellar space, I’m finding it takes about half a million years to collide with a mole of hydrogen (at 17km/s)

Jeff_Brown on Nov 17, 2019 [–]

Google says that's about a gram of hydrogen. Is that enough to destroy a craft? I have little intuition, but I imagine touching a gram of 55,000-degree (Farenheit) anything would be destructive.

Will the craft be radiating heat away from itself?

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