fish is space

AGD said:
Yep, the water would freeze and the fish would die. :)

edit: and if the water pressure was kept high enough not to freeze, the fish would likely be killed by the pressure anyway.
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The pressure required to stop the water boiling would be the same pressure the fish would experience on earth so they would certainly not be killed by the pressure.
 
Shhh! Stop being pedantic...:p

Ok, absolute Zero, where all particle movement stops...

(yeah I know there will probably be some radient heat to raise the fish tank above that but it's starting to get a little above my maths ability now... See below)


And as for the cooling time, well working it out is giving me some really bad A-Level maths memories...

http://www.ugrad.math.ubc.ca/coursedoc/math100/notes/diffeqs/cool.html

:/
 
ThePirateHulk said:
The pressure required to stop the water boiling would be the same pressure the fish would experience on earth so they would certainly not be killed by the pressure.
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Not if the tank was not temperature protected due to ice buildup and increase in presssure due to that.

OP it would probably have been best if you had just mentioned that it was put inside the ISS... :p
 
Ahh, ok. I assumed you wanted to know how fish would swim/react in zero/micro mavity and assumed we were going off on a complete tangent.:D
 
If the tank was unpressurised, the water would boil. Result: Dead fish.

If the tank was pressurised, the water would freeze. Result: Dead fish.

If the tank was pressurised and had a heat source then the water would remain liquid. Result: Living fish (assuming there was also a mechanism to keep the water oxygenated).
 
get a nuclear powered heater for the water and a uv light for the plants :)

Just need to sort the food out and a way to clean the water every few months lol

MW
 
Totally sealed unit, assuming oxygen and co2 and temp was kept fine, YO FISH WO DIE!

Swim bladders aimed at keeping them neutral bouyant would go mental through lack of mavity- this would kill them.

Assuming you could get the tank spinning at the right speed though, centrifugal force would act as mavity.

So, a tank with co2 and o2 control, temp control, sealed to maintain pressure and spinning in the right way, they should be juuuuuuuuuust fine.
 
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Good god OcUK, it is obvious the OP simply meant what happens to fish in Zero mavity aka what would happen to the fish if an astronaut were to take his pet gold fish with him.
 
We need to figure out how to get a glass fish tank filled with water to space on a 17500mph rocket with out it shattering from vibration first :D
 
We need to figure out how to get a glass fish tank filled with water to space on a 17500mph rocket with out it shattering from vibration first
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<<INSERT METAPHORE INVOLVING YOUR ROCKET, VIBRATIONS, USING PLASTIC AND GOING TO THE MOON AND BACK HERE>>
 
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Piranhas seem a very hardy fish, going by the films and all.
They could probably survive in space.

The same for killer bees, I reckon they could take over the universe if any of them were inadvertantly launched into space.

Let us hope the authorities have sufficient safeguards in place to prevent either piranhas or killer bees ever reaching escape velocity.
 
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