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A wizard drops you on the moon. You immediately panic about not being able to breathe, plus your salivia is boiling and your blood is...well, it killed you pretty darn quickly.
Thankfully, the wizard noticed and set spells that puts a tiny bit of atmosphere right over your head, and , repairs the damage inflicted already. There is a chair and a go-board in front of you.
"Wait, that's it?" you ask the wizard after he explains what the spells did. "Arent I going to burn, or freeze, or something?"
"Eventually, yeah," says the wizard as he sits down. "But the human body's great at homeostasis. Since your blood isn't boiling it can circulate heat within you, you can burn calories to add heat as needed, and sweating is absurdly effective since the relative humidity of a vacuum is pretty much less than zero."
"But, didn't the Apollo capsule spin to manage heat, and aren't there huge radiator fins on the ISS so they don't slowly burn? I thought managing heat was hard?"
"It is. For an inanimate object. Especially one that isn't filled with water or surrounded by a thermo exchange medium. You ever see a capsule bleed or a probe sweat?"