XPost: alt.planets.mars, alt.permaculture, sci.space.station   
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   From: bondage@frontiernet.net   
      
   JusUK wrote:   
   >   
   > "Marc 182"  wrote in message   
   > news:MPG.1ceb51134d9cc07e98987d@nnrp1.phx1.gblx.net...   
   > > In article <42801C8F.6055DC61@frontiernet.net>, bondage@frontiernet.net   
   > > says...   
   > >> Rick Jones wrote:   
   > >> >   
   > >> > What would happen to a soiled (presumeably mostly sweat and body oils   
   > >> > right?) garment is simply hung out the window as it were - that is to   
   > >> > say simply exposed to the vacuum of space?  What would happen to the   
   > >> > sweat and oils?   
   > >> >   
   > >> > rick jones   
   > >>   
   > >>   
   > >>    H2O would sublime to vapor, if mildly warm. Expect many of the   
   > >> remaining components to become crystallized 'freeze-dried' stuff...but   
   > >> would it readily let go of the cloth? That's what one really wants.   
   > >   
   > > Put the laundry in a cage and then vibrate that, either roughly or   
   > > ultrasonically. Should work pretty well. Recalls desperate college days   
   > > of hanging jeans out of my window instead of a $.25 wash.   
   > >   
   > > On Mars, the jeans would get dusty.   
   > >   
   >   
   > Surely the cloth would either be frozen solid and break up or melt and   
   > evapourate depending on whether it was in sunlight or not?   
      
      
      Tempratures wouldn't be *that* cold or hot.   
      
      
   > Would also be   
   > radioactive?   
      
      
      Why?   
      
      
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