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colcob t1_iwp2c3o wrote

A big drop of water floating in space could only have such pressure internally as would be caused by its own gravity. A rough calculation says that surface gravity on the mini water planet would be about 1/10’000th of earth gravity, so pretty small, but which would develop about 1.5 psi of pressure under 7 miles of water.

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OneTreePhil OP t1_iwq3boa wrote

Wow so you would actual suffer from decompression if you just "beamed" there

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Ok_Construction5119 t1_iwre4op wrote

Yeah, the pressure of your 14 mile droplet is noticeably less than atmospheric pressure

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