Eli5: What would happen if there was a pipe to space.

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So basically my question is if you were to build a pipe from sea level to outer space would it suck all the air out to space?

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The weight of all the air in the pipe would be the same pressure as the air outside the pipe, so nothing special would happen.

You could put a pump or a heat source in it to force air up, but it would have to be extremely powerful to have any effect and we just don’t have anything that powerful.

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