If a hole was punctured in a pressurised space vessel, at what speed would the air escape the vessel?
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Depends on how highly pressurized the vessel was; the rate at which air was actually lost would also depend on the size of the hole, and would be greatest at the beginning and slow as pressure in the vessel decreased. A pinhole puncture might give a lot of time for a response -- might even require sensitive instrumentation to detect. (Didn't the Int'l Space Station have that problem?) A large enough hole could be immediately catastrophic.
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