Submitted by hobbitlover t3_12337br in askscience
OneFutureOfMany t1_jdvumb4 wrote
Reply to comment by ThePufferfishJeff in If there was a hole in the ISS, would everyone get sucked out like in Sci-Fi movies? by hobbitlover
How people conceptualize it is slightly different depending on the wording, I'd say.
The example above... if you were at the far end of the station from the hole, you'd feel close to nothing except the air leaving you. There is no "suck" feeling.
When many/most people think of "sucking" they sort of envision a force that would permeate the internal structure and suck at everything.
Instead, talking about the atmosphere "pushing", it's intuitively obvious that if you're at the far bulkhead, you feel almost no force.
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