If your skin was exposed in space and you bled would your blood be blue from lack of oxygen?

On Wed, 26 May 1999 you wrote:

> If your skin was exposed in space and you bled would your blood be blue from
> lack of oxygen?

Presuming that, except for your arm, you were in a space suit and happily
breathing, then your blood would still be red, as your blood gets oxygen
from your lungs. As soon as the blood became exposed to space, the water
and gases in your blood would instantly start to boil away, and whatever
red-blood cells in your blood that gave it a red color would essentially
explode. So, I doubt that there would be blood left to have a color (the
above process is very fast).

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