Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 71 — page 122: what you’re looking at

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Space isn’t as cold as generally supposed. In this article a commonly-held fallacy is brought up to date KEEP COOL! by COLIN MAY NE OF THE LEFT-OVERS () from the early days of science fiction is the concept that space is cold. For some reason all the early writers insisted on the “‘abso- lute zero”’ of space. You may have read the kind of thing. The villain, or maybe the hero, steps unprotected into ‘space and is immediately frozen solid. We had space- ships heavily insulated against the “chill of space’ and were bombarded with purple pas- sages all designed to point out “the bleak and frigid void,” the “numbing cold of space,” and so on. Look for them in the early stories and you'll 121 find them by the dozen, and all bearing the same message. Space is cold. Space is very cold. Now, of course, we know better. Don’t we? Before we can finally blast this entirely false concept, it is important to know just what temperature is. Temperature is the measure of a body’s *“*hotness” or “‘coldness’’, and it may be said that the change in temperature of a body is a measure of the change in energy of the atoms or mole- cules of which the substance iscomposed. . Obviously, then, if there is — no substance, there can be no conmiclsooks.conn