Re:Walking on a cube-shaped planet
by sjwright on Friday August 26, 2011 @07:25PM
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If the inside was a total vacuum, the moment you finished drilling through the 1 mile shell, the vast majority of the planet's atmosphere would be sucked through the open hole at an insanely fast rate.
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> [..] insanely fast rate.
Well, at the same rate as air at 1 atmosphere pressure will fill any vacuum container through a hole of that size.
You seem to suggest that fact that that speed somehow depends on the size of the hollow earth and the quantity of the atmosphere.
The pressure depends only on the height of the air column.