None of the dimensional ships or Legion ships we’ve seen have been remotely airtight, and we’ve even walked around on the exteriors of them while they’re in space and been fine. Places like Mardum, the Telogrus Rift, and Dreadscar rift dont seem to have any atmosphere at all, and we’ve been fine in them
What a good looking question.
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I want to say no and it’s just game mechanics so we don’t have to deal with oxygen bars like Borderlands The Pre Sequel. Or magical oxygen bubbles. A wizard did it.
Magic
It’s Magic
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Technically yes, even in real life there IS oxygen in space, however much like how H20 water is 50% oxygen but we can’t breathe it the oxygen in space is mixed with a miasma of so many other non-breathable or useless waste elements that human beings and 99.9% of aerobic organisms simply cannot carry out respiration… except Tardigrades which were fine. there’s like 000.1% oxygen in space and even on the moon (which does indeed have a thin layer of oxygen on it’s surface) but this cannot be considered a proper atmosphere due to the sparsity of the oxygen itself. Is there oxygen in space? Yes. can you BREATHE it in space? No.
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Beat me too it.
My answer is alien’s
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The question for this would’ve been back in Burning Crusade.
Because I doubt Outland has the atmosphere that’d be needed to breathe given it’s a floating asteroid left over from a shredded planet.
Treasure Planet rules in effect, air in space is apparently breathable, so don’t stretch the details of the ships not being hermetically sealed enclosed spaces.
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Technically, that isn’t “space” as it’s not a vacuumous void like in our world so there’s no reason it couldn’t have an Atmosphere.
“You think that’s air you’re breathing?”
Fun fact, an atmosphere of pure oxygen will also not be breathable. Well, technically you can breathe it, but your body won’t be able to handle the excess concentrated oxygen and it just wrecks your nervous system.
So we can’t have too little oxygen. But we also can’t have too much, either.
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True, I don;t think most people quite realize that like 90% of our atmosphere is radioactive or useless waste gaseous elements like the noble gases, especially our upper atmospheric layers… like a total of 2% of the earth’s atmosphere is breathable oxygen.
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I was gonna include Outland and Argus, but they’re both technically in both the Twisting Nether and the Great Dark Beyond at the same time.
On Earth, at standard temperature and pressure there are about 10^24 molecules per cubic metre of air. All sorts of gases, but about 80% is nitrogen, 19% is oxygen and the rest is assorted gases. This is what we have evolved to breathe. We can breathe a wider range, but we’d either be lethargic (slightly lower O2) or unconscious (much lower O2). Not sure if we had a really high O2 level, but that’s bad for other reasons (wildfires far more frequently and far stronger in intensity).
We struggle to breathe about about 4000m from sea level. We can adapt, but only so far. By 8000m, there’s just not enough air to survive on.
Halfway to the Moon, that drops to around 10^8 molecules per cubic metre, and at the edge of the Solar System, it’s down to about 10^3. Between galaxies, it gets down to a few hundred atoms per cubic metre.
There’s not enough of anything to breathe in space, and with the pressure so fantastically low, the attempt would likely result in your lungs emptying instantly of air, and then blood. Of course, you’d have frozen to death before you had to worry about breathing.
That said, in science fiction a lot of stories include some sort of force field that keeps a bubble of air around a ship, so that people can breathe and the story doesn’t have to deal with one of the challenges of space. I think WoW space travel is like this.
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I’m sorry… What?
Edit: Actually there is according to Bing
I can’t link it though
Basically anyone in a WoW space ship and especially Telogrus rift should be freezing/exploding like a too-long microwaved hot dog from solar and cosmic particle radiation due to the “vacuum” of space not holding heat and subsequently suffocation/freezing or boiling to death from the inside out happens. Either Azeroth’s natural fauna adapted to much MUCH lower oxygen/breathable gas levels and vaster temp extremes than most animals in real life (Azeroth’s Trolls, Elves, Draenie, etc are all basically water bears) or Telogrus rift and other such space settings are MASSIVE plot holes.
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Or, to add onto this explanation with a third option, WoW simply operates on different physics to reality. Because I’m not sure if its a plot hole if it doesn’t really come up.
The simplest comparison I could make is Treasure Planet, which has open aired ships in the style of old sea-vessels sailing around space. And no one has trouble breathing whilst on a space-faring voyage. No explanation. The story just carries on because Rule of Cool (and it is cool, imo). There’s not much of a conflict with the internal consistency of the setting in any case.
Besides, unless we’re talking about a scenario where breathable air suddenly becomes a dramatic focus, like poison gas filling up a chamber, there’s not really any reason to get bogged down by the details of the physics of people breathing in space just fine. We get bogged in those details, we will have to bring up how planets have a tendency to have different atmospheres that we can’t breathe either.
Warcraft is a fantasy, not a Sci-Fi (like Star Trek).
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I do like how they do explain gravity though XD. I always assumed their oxygen came from generators like from Starwars, though what REALLY bugs me about it is that Umbric even mentions it’s “TOO HOT!” in Vol’dun… while it’s a common trope in Sci-fi that one would “freeze to death” in space, this is simply not the case much like how water is a poor temperature regulator Space doesn’t hold a constant temp for a physical body either, one can be either burning hot or freezing cold, to all extents and purposes Void Elves should be all but immune to “most” environmental hazards barring like having acid thrown on them or being stabbed, by contrast Blood Elves are perhaps the “weakest” race barring Forsaken yet are somehow carrying out complex strenuous daily routines in the same barren volatile environment?
Maybe they’re following the D&D rules for spelljammers. An object that travels high enough to leave an atmosphere takes x amount of an envelope of air. The larger the vessel the more air it takes.