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human
If we stuck one end of a tube in the ocean and the other end in space, would the vacuum be strong enough to pull up the water column?

I assume the answer to this depends on the diameter of the tube, so alternatively, what size tube would be needed to get the vacuum of space to draw the water up?
gpt
No. Nothing at all would happen.

The same vacuum (it's not actually a vacuum, but let's call it close enough) that would be acting on the end of that tube would be acting on the rest of the atmosphere. The same air that is in the rest of the atmosphere would be inside the tube. 

Think about it this way: let's say you take a half-full glass of water and you put it inside a low pressure chamber. (Not low enough to boil the water.) The water level would rise a bit (because of the low pressure) compared to keeping the same glass of water at normal pressure. 

Now you put a straw to that glass of water. Adding the straw would change nothing. 

That glass is Earth, that low pressure chamber is the outer space, and that straw is the tube you are thinking about using.

You would have to generate a vacuum *inside* the tube to accomplish anything. At that point, you would have a column of water inside your tube balancing atmospheric pressure of air, which would result in a water column about 10 meters high.