• black0ut@pawb.social
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    9 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.

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      9 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].

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        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.

      • pebbles@sh.itjust.works
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        7 hours ago

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