I can’t for the life of me recall the guy’s name, but I clearly remember my junior high science teacher standing in front of my 8th grade class proclaiming in chalk and a slow loud voice that “Vacuum doesn’t suck!” I never would’ve guessed that nearly 30 years later, I’d be giving regular seminars and classes teaching, at its core, this very same principle.
The word “vacuum” is a little mysterious. It conjures in the imagination starships’ doors getting ripped off and tossed like soda cans into the black void of space, astronauts gasping for one last breath before their bodies go cold.