Could the air pressure be higher?
When planes get holes does the inside pressure equal the outside.
Short answer: Yes
Long answer: It depends on the direction. If the hole is in the forward direction the pressure will be higher. If it's on the side or the back then the pressure will be lower. But fluid dynamic is hard so there may be weird exemptions. Anyway the difference can be measured but is small to be relevant in this case.
> say ~ +20° C vs exterior. Could the air pressure be higher?
If you have a sealed container and you increase the temperature ~ +20° C, the pressure will increase, somewhat like 7% (with a lot of guesses and approximations).
But if it's unsealed, when instead of raising the pressure the air will just escape slowly. You can test it with a microwave with a glass of water. When you open it after 1 minute the temperature inside is higher, but it will not hear a pop as a balloon.
The hot air will have the same relative O2 pressure but a lower absolute O2 pressure. I guess this is bad for the survival rate.
The story is here:
https://allthatsinteresting.com/keith-sapsford
Someone even (by chance) got a photo of him falling.
bahmboo•6mo ago
So they always pass out but sometimes are able to wake up and manage to get out. Barely. Usually they die.
Wish we didn't have places so terrible to live that a person resorts to this.
grumpymuppet•6mo ago
sokoloff•6mo ago
Though the stowaways may have had individually terrible reasons to try this, I don't think of those five places as being particularly terrible.
sophacles•6mo ago