Space help: What would happen if you took a balloon full of air into the vacuum of space? - Help.com

Not that I have any expertise on the area, but my guess is that it would simply explode.

lol. there’s air in space ships.

and what’s to the air in their?

everything floats.

because of lack of gravity.

Srinh, but space ships are made in order to maintain their internal pressure.

Balloons are not that strong, wouldn’t the lack of pressure on the outside cause them to expand themselfes till they explode, in order to balance the pressure? Rubber is not that strong. =/

Yuniko wrote:
Srinh, but space ships are made in order to maintain their internal pressure.Balloons are not that strong, wouldn’t the lack of pressure on the outside cause them to expand themselfes till they explode, in order to balance the pressure? Rubber is not that strong. =/

I concur

probably. good point.

We need an physicist or something here.

The question got me curious!

it would float around like a baloon :D

Think about it for a minuite. If the balloon is filled with air on earth. It has the preasure of the compressed air on the inside of the balloon verses the presure of air out side of the balloon. Taken into space there is no preasure on the outside of the balloon, to counter the preasure of compressed air inside the balloon. Therefore the ballon would expand. It would keep on expanding until the rubber of the balloon got that thin it would eventually rip or dissapear completely.
It would, I think, be more likely to rip. It would not explode as such but rupture. the air that is left would then float in space.

Sorry, the last bit should be, the air and the ruptured balloon would then float in space.

why do u need to know the answer

what, this is obvious, it would explode of course, thats how the new balloons are designed to burst before reaching anywhere near that altitude cus of airtraffic and alsorts of other flying things…

AdamMartinEdwardson wrote:
what, this is obvious, it would explode of course, thats how the new balloons are designed to burst before reaching anywhere near that altitude cus of airtraffic and alsorts of other flying things…

That is definitively excelent info.
There is no such thing as too much knowledge. :)

Yuniko.

Yes and that bit at the end. “And alsorts of other flying things”. Had me in stitches did that bit.

no1 wud do this

thep wrote:
Yuniko.

Yes and that bit at the end. “And alsorts of other flying things”. Had me in stitches did that bit.

you’ll be suprised, i saw a doughnut once on the way to iceland….

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