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al4s@feddit.org 6 days agoI don’t think that’s that bad, especially because the pressure drops everywhere equally. Most planes would be able to work just fine, they’d just have to fly a bit lower, if even that. Divers would get squashed though.
turdcollector69@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Any container holding pressure that isn’t just oxygen would rupture because they were designed to work under atmospheric pressure not 80% atmosphere.
Things like hydrogen, natural gas containment and basically any kind of balloon would not have a good time.
A sudden drop in outside pressure would be devastating to many structures because dynamic load from the gas slamming against the vessel walls.
Conversely anything containing a large amount of oxygen would suddenly be a vacuum instead of a positive pressure environment and would certainly fail.