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Moon.
How fast would this suck up all of our atmosphere? Hours? Days?
Probably years, if not more. XKCD's "What If?" has a nice explanation on a similar question, but in that case it was a portal at the bottom of the mariana trench and the question was about draining the oceans. The answer is that you probably wouldn't notice in all your lifetime.
I remember that video, but Iโm not sure it is comparable โ air might flow faster than water [citation needed] and there might be less of it [citation needed].
I'm pretty sure there is much more air. At least volume wise. Sphere volume goes up by radius cubed.
there's more water than air (mass-wise).
Above you, atmosphere scale height is 8 km, with a density of 1.25 kg / mยณ.
That makes 10^4 kg of air above your head per mยฒ surface area.
To get the same mass of water per surface area, it would only have to be about 10 m deep. But the ocean is kilometers deep in most places.