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Filling the Solar System with AIR - What would happen? (hackertalks.com)

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Let's suppose we could dump enough "breathable" air (whatever that means for humans) into the solar system that it filled the spaces between planets.

What would happen?

A - I imagine it would then become possible to fly airplanes between planets, perhaps balloons? Would space travel become easier or harder?

B - According to another lemmy post, we would start to hear sound waves from the sun (A constant jackhammer sound - delightful)

C - Each each planet become the center of some mega cyclone (like the Jupiter storms, but bigger)?

D - At some point the air above us wouldn't be pushing down onto the earth at sea level, could we survive the additional pressure?

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Well, given a sphere of air stretching out to Neptune would only be around 6.5x its Schwarzschild radius in diameter, I imagine it would very quickly collapse into a black hole. There definitely won't be enough time to fly airships around or hear the sound from the Sun before the planets are shredded by the air (which is moving at roughly Mach 80 in the case of Earth), even if they didn't fall into the new black hole.