• morgan423
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        23 hours ago

        Pretty sure the game theorists channel on youtube did that one several years back. It’s been a minute since I watched it but a search should pull it for you.

      • @[email protected]
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        217 hours ago

        Probably years, if not more. XKCD’s “What If?” has a nice explanation on a similar question, but in that case it was a portal at the bottom of the mariana trench and the question was about draining the oceans. The answer is that you probably wouldn’t notice in all your lifetime.

        • @[email protected]
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          97 hours ago

          I remember that video, but I‘m not sure it is comparable — air might flow faster than water [citation needed] and there might be less of it [citation needed].

          • @[email protected]
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            22 hours ago

            there’s more water than air (mass-wise).

            Above you, atmosphere scale height is 8 km, with a density of 1.25 kg / m³.

            That makes 10^4 kg of air above your head per m² surface area.

            To get the same mass of water per surface area, it would only have to be about 10 m deep. But the ocean is kilometers deep in most places.

          • @[email protected]
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            25 hours ago

            I’m pretty sure there is much more air. At least volume wise. Sphere volume goes up by radius cubed.

      • @[email protected]
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        36 hours ago

        Unless the pressure differential causes it to escape the moons gravity well it would probably stabilize at some point before dumping the whole atmosphere, right?

      • SanguinePar
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        36 hours ago

        Easy solution for that, you fire the earth portal on a wall inside some sort of specially constructed airlock.

        That hard part would be getting the moon portal in a useful place, you’d probably need to go up there and find a good solid cliff face or something. On the plus side having done that you could be home again in a few seconds.

      • @latenightnoir
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        17 hours ago

        As long as I’m the first one through, the rest is set dressing.