Just to be pedantic

You are seeing 14.7 lb of weight over every square inch of your body.
How do you think a plane flies? The air pressure below the wing is greater than the pressure above. The lift that a wing has is the weight of air holding it up. That weight holds the plane up.
Apart from atmospheric pressure, air weighs 0.00129 g/cc squared (at zero degrees at sea level)
If you have enough volume, you will get a pound of air.
Granted, a tire doesn't have the volume but you could have a pound of air.

 

Well this thread is getting to be pretty high browed so I'll bring it back down some with my own...dumb neighbor story.

I'll start by saying they probably aren't stupid just ignorant.....but I digress.

An asian family moved in a few doors down. Must be 12- 15 people living there. Their first summer a guy goes out to cut his grass and is having problems getting ti started. 15 minutes later the street if full and I mean full of white smoke. He has overfilled his oil and mixed oil in with his gas. The cloud was as thick as I have ever seen. Crazy part is....the guy is still cutting..up and down.

Later that same summer a storm hit and knocked down a tree (about 6' in diameter) in his back yard. He is out there with a 10-12" electric chainsaw, corduroy shorts, and flip flops standing on the trunk trying to cut the tree up. It was the funniest thing I had seen in ages.

 

My daughter never reads here so I guess I can tell on her.
When she was in high school she came downstairs with a towel on her head, wearing a bathrobe. She proceeded to the electric dryer and opened the door, effectively stopping the machine.

I said, "Hey, why did you do that?"
To which she replied, going up the stairs, "I'm going to take a shower.".

 

i think most of us would stop to help a lady in distress, or in dis-dress, or something

 

god dizzam those are some jubblies!!!!!

but back to the subject... if you look inside a spaceship while decompression is happening (a breach in the hull) you will notice everything inside of it being sucked out into space..... while the scientific explaination may be far from how it looks or is percieved, the fact is.... a container with objects gets damaged, and the atmosphere around it is sucking the contents out.... no matter how you try and label the atoms involved, and the processes and law of physics and all that crap...... its still the same basic concept of being "sucked" out by the vaccum of space.... i know nothing of scientific studies or physics, nor do i intend to know them... all i know, is if im ever in space, and i see s**t flyin around me toward a small, but steadily getting larger, hole in my ship, you can guarentee my *** is going to be strapping itself to something inside.... anyone ever see "Alien resurrection"? tell me that aint suction....... i know its an exchange of pressure, but the byproduct of it all is suction... thats all suction IS man... change of pressure.... unless your talking about an 8lb oreck... that uses velocity of wind to pick up foreign particles in your rug.....

 

While she is quite a looker...her "features: are a little large for my taste.

More than a handful is a waste

 

nah, you need 2 hand fulls, and something to smother yourself with LOL any more than that? yeah.. thats a waste but i do agree... she is a bit more large in the bust than i would like to spend the rest of my life with.... god knows shes gonna be creakin in the back by the time shes 40... pity those are probably fake, and she would have paid for all those back pains lol but hey....



Edited to add: I just think its kinda funny... its almost disgustingly obvious shes showing em off... who else would wear a shirt you could strain orange juice with, with a bra and jub jubs like those?

 

Bad,
You cannot base science on what you see at the movies. They take a lot of liberties with fact.
Anyway, in your hull breach scenario, the vacuum of space is not sucking. The higher pressure air inside the spaceship is moving towards the lower pressure area (space),
It is in fact blowingout, not sucking out.
A vacuum cleaner motor creates suction by causing a low pressure drop internally and atmospheric pressure rushes in to replace it.
As they say, nature abhors a vacuum.

 

What EnglishAdam said

Another analogy would be to consider your typical garage air compressor w/tank. The tank could be the "space ship hull"...the pressure in the tank is higher than the pressure outside the tank, thus if you were to poke a hole in the tank, it would in fact blow OUT...and for the record, tell me when you're gonna do it so I can be FAR FAR FAR away

Nature likes equilibrium and the return of everything back to the lowest state of energy possible... that goes for just about anything...even big hooters

Tony (a.ka. another certified Engineering nut).

 

Besides the back problems when she is older.....Just think what those things will look like when she IS older and they are hanging between her knees (with a bra on)....LOL but...I would hit it for a while now though!

 

And that is how an engine works. When the piston goes down it does not suck in the air, the air is pushed in by the weight of the atmosphere. (14.7 at sea level) unless your blown of coarse.

 

cant forget turbo or S/C

 

I think that's what Lees meant by "If you are blown"

Didn't he?

 

but funny none the less...the left tata just isn't at krisp and clear as the right one..and what's with the pointy tip? it doesn't look cold...

T

 

I think her headlights were stuck on thats what she was trying to fix!

With the vaccum converstaion...Sucked or pulled in to outer space it dosen't really matter because you are dead! I don't think my last thought would be... was I sucked, pushed, or pulled out here??? More like Ohh Sh**, this isn't good! Even if you did figure it out you couldn't tell anybody...BECAUSE YOUR DEAD!