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A friend of mine believes that the Earth is flat. I challenged him to prove it by walking off the edge...
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[ link to youtu.be (secure)] Here's a demonstration of what happens to a depressurized tanker at ordinary sea level pressure. What would happen on the space station in a total vacuum? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 70477606 Actually the Mythbusters had a fair bit of trouble re-creating that... They had to first cause a bit of structural damage to the tanker car to get it to fail and implode when they pulled a vacuum on it. Furthermore, the pressure vessels of ISS are not tanker cars, they are designed to withstand the pressure difference. Quoting: Astroshill I work with industrial vacuum dehydrators. I once hooked up to a 550 gallon solid steel tank filled with oil. I forgot to open the vent on the top of the tank before I established a deep vacuum (27 torr). I walked away for a few minutes. When I returned the tank was crushed. Vacuum is a very powerful force. I don't know what would happen if I tried to recreate this at a very high altitude but I don't believe that our atmosphere can exist in the vacuum of outer space. I'm not taking a position on FE.
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