: Also, could bacteria really live in a body floating space? I mean, maybe they
: might be insulated if they're deep enough inside a tissue, but it seems
: like the whole thing would cool to background temperature pretty quickly.
Radiative heat transfer of a body is given by H = A * e * sigma * T4, where H is dQ/dt (heat transfer per second), A is the body's surface area, sigma is a Stefan-Boltzmann constant (5.67x10-8 W m-2 K-4), and T is the temperature of the body in degrees Kelvin. Heat itself is related to temperature by Q = m C T, where Q is heat, m is the mass of the body, C is its specific heat, and T is its temperature. Substitution yields:
dQ/dt = -A e sigma (Q/mC)4
dQ/dt = -k Q4 for k = (A e sigma) / (m4 C4)
The solution from here is trivial.
This might not have been the answer you were looking for, but it was the best I could do.