BRISTLECONE: The Captain wanted us to work all the angles. What about shooting our way into the spindle?
KEVYN: Well, it's tough stuff. PTU matrices, braids of amorphous alloys, powered fullerenes...
KEVYN: And it's thickest in all the places where a hole would be useful.
Probably because in all of those places, a hole would be catastrophic.
BRISTLECONE: I can't imagine much air leaking out through a hole in the spindle.
KEVYN: I'm imagining the can flying apart at around thirty thousand kilometers an hour.
ELF: And I imagine that would let out all of the air.