> Michael M. Butler butler@comp-lib.org wrote:
> > "What is your temperature?" "Um, 3 degrees K, or three hundred degres F,
> > depending on how you look at it."
> Technotranscendence wrote:
> Wrong conversion! Michael probably means -370 degrees C (or -457 degrees
> F)... Had to nitpick!:)
The way I interpreted that is: in a near vacuum, it doesnt matter much what the temperature is. The heat transfer from or to the few particles present is very low compared to the heat transfer by radiation. If one were in deep space with a pressure of 1 picotorr, the temperature could be anything you wanted, but you wouldnt know the difference. You would still radiate heat away. Doug Jones explained it in his post.