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To some extent but the stark difference in pressures makes it inherently a different problem. It's actually easer to build a balloon than a compressible can.
by samwillis 3y ago
To some extent but the stark difference in pressures makes it inherently a different problem.
It's actually easer to build a balloon than a compressible can.
0.5mm hole in a space craft is a slow leek you can fill with epoxy (it's happened). The same in a sub at the depth of the Titanic, there is no fix and it's not a 0.5mm hole, it's an implosion.
- euroderf 3y agoI hope this means we'll get a Chesley Bonestell -style space wheel in our lifetimes.