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[–]iamonlyoneman 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

https://aluminium-guide.com/en/alyuminievaya-pivnaya-banka-konstrukciya-i-materialy/

0.08mm is the current thinnest you'll find cans holding your frosty beverages of choice.

The moon lander had skin as thin as 0.3mm and was required to hold far less differential pressure . . . AND it had thicker sections for strength at intervals.

[–]raven9 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

A can of soda would explode in space.

[–]iamonlyoneman 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Fortunately in that situation the design considerations are different and people smarter than you did the maths, and it worked out just fine.

[–]iDontShift 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

are different

to create a vacuum requires twelve foot reinforced concrete

yeah, and the one time they put a guy into the vacuum chamber, with a 'space suit' .. they never made it to a perfect vacuum, the water on the man's tongue boiled.

he nearly died.

we have NEVER done that again.

there is no proof these suits work

fools are fools until they wake up

[–]iamonlyoneman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I, personally myself, have created ultra-hard vacuum in a glass jar a centimeter thick. Concrete is porous and a stupid example to use for a vessel to hold vacuum.