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		mcross on Dec 4, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Launch a Water-Propelled Satellite into Deep Space Perhaps this is a dumb question, but wouldn't the water freeze?

tlarkworthy on Dec 4, 2013 [–]

low pressure lowers the boiling point. Water is space will spontaneously boil (i.e. its molecules will separate and drift apart in a vacuum, because there is no background material to hold them together anymore)

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