• Question: What would happen if you sent a fish to space when it was in a bag of water??? Would it did or not because they get oxygen through their gills from the water???

    Asked by anon-200542 to Rosemary, Oliver, Leigh, Jordan, Hannah, David on 4 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Oliver Gordon

      Oliver Gordon answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      Oxygen isn’t infinite. The fish breaths in the same way as us – it takes in oxygen (just from the water, not the air), and turns it into carbon dioxide. Eventually it would run out of oxygen to breath, and suffocate.

      (P.S. please don’t send your pet fish into space!)

    • Photo: Jordan Kirby

      Jordan Kirby answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      I think the biggest problem for the poor fish would be the fact that space is ~ -268 Celsius. The water in the bag would intantly freeze and the fish would be frozen! So for all intents and purposes the fish would die yes.

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