Re: Lunacy from Brussels



Dirk Bruere at Neopax wrote:

> Rich Grise wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 01:45:48 +0100, Pooh Bear wrote:
> >
> >>"Rich Grise, Plainclothes Hippie" wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> if you're
> >>>running the internal atmosphere-substitute at about 25% of a
> >>>terrestrial atmosphere (is that a bar?), wouldn't that be about
> >>>like putting your hand (or ***, in the case of that story) up to
> >>>a vacuum cleaner hose?
> >>
> >>An atmosphere of 250 mbar would kill you.
> >
> >
> > not 250 mbar of 100% O2. :-) (actually, I think 220 would be closer to
> > the partial pressure at the surface).
>
> People have climbed Everest without O2, and the pressure is 250 mbar at the top.

Such ppl have typically trained to do so or have lived all their lives at high
altitude.

There's a reason for those oxygen masks in airliners.

Graham

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