If it's some space you're looking for…well, how about
outer space? Nice and quiet and loads of 'space'!
The first thing you'd need is a space suit: the cheapest one
costs about six million pounds.
A few people have taken their own atmosphere with them to space
and even managed to 'walk' in space. The first person to do this
was Alexei Leonov in 1965.
One of the many problems Leonov faced was that his spacesuit had
no cooling system which would cause him to over heat and lose a lot
of body water.
Also, as soon as he left the space craft, the suit would become
as stiff as a rugby ball and Leonov couldn't even bend his arms.
This was caused by pressure levels inside the suit, but reducing
the pressure could lead to suffocation.
Luckily, these problems have been solved and modern space suits
have their own cooling, humidity and pressure-control systems. They
don't blow up like balloons, and you'd be able to move about
freely. A modern space suit is a self contained world which would
allow you to live in space, but you'd soon get tired of living in
it.
You could of course take it off, but without oxygen you'd
suffocate in a matter of minutes. The reason why we don't suffocate
is because the Earth has a protective atmosphere which is about
100Km thick. Without it, the seas would boil and evaporate into
space, and there's a fair chance your blood would boil before you
suffocated. This is because the Earth's temperature would swing
between a very chilly -180oC and a very warm
100oC. It also protects us from radiation from the sun,
cosmic rays from exploding stars, meteors, bits of old comet and
all sorts of other potentially catastrophic space junk.
So maybe this old planet isn't so bad after all eh? Even living
in the remotest of places on our planet like Death Valley or the
Antarctica is a piece of cake compared to living in space!