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ca_fighterace t1_ja2yt0l wrote

Reply to comment by DownAndOutInSValley in Explosions in space movies? by DemonOfTheAstroWaste

Don’t they just depressurize? I never heard anything about pumping air in to tanks.

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GoodbyeSkyPrime t1_ja36plt wrote

Good question. In depressurizing, you have effectively 2 options. Vent your atmosphere into space, or pump it into tanks. In The Expanse, there isn’t a technology to manufacture atmosphere. Venting atmosphere into space would make it unrecoverable and would be very bad for everyone involved. The only option would be storing it in tanks for later repressurization.

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