skulblaka

You’d think so, right?

Receipts you say?

We’re at 56 pages of this now for a nice round count of 1400 charges

So far as I am aware all of these are publicly searchable court cases

Hm. Maybe you’re right then. I am both not an astrophysicist and am a bit stoned so I’m definitely willing to admit arguments here. I thought internal heat generation was the problem they were cooling far more than solar radiation but I could definitely be wrong.

On a Sci-Fi Star Wars spaceship though I think the internal heating is definitely going to be the bigger factor.

Sure, but unless you’re quite close to it and have the surface area of a planet, you’re not going to be catching a lot of that solar radiation. Some of the outer planets of our own solar system are very large, and very frozen, and unless you’re that big or bigger and that close or closer, so are you.

There’s an awful lot of space in between stars as well. So if you’re traveling anywhere, you’re spending a lot of time outside of ~10 AU from the nearest star. Solar radiation doesn’t play a big part out there.

It’s more accurate to say that space doesn’t have a lot of easy access to external heat sources. Your local temperature is pretty much going to stay your local temperature without some significant effort being put into it. If you’re a rock, that’s cold. If you’re a spaceship full of humans and electronics that continually emit heat to operate, you’re going to stay pretty warm and shedding heat is an engineering problem that must be solved.