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Re:Directed Energy Planetary Defense and Relativistic Probes by sandworm101 on Friday January 08, 2016 @01:47PM (#10867175)
In space it often isn't so much boiling (liquid+heat=gas) as sublimation (solid+energy=gas). Sublimation can, weirdly, occur well below the freezing/boiling point. That one lone cosmic ray can heat a single molecule of water enough to cast it into space as a gas ... all in an environment where the average temp is well below freezing points. Temperatures in vacuum are strange.

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