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- From: pgf@srl05.cacs.usl.edu (Phil G. Fraering)
- Subject: Re: Lunar "colony" reality check
- In-Reply-To: jboggs@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu's message of 11 Nov 92 14:34:33 GMT
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- Organization: University of SW Louisiana
- References: <1992Nov11.005151.15358@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>
- <1992Nov11.143433.18514@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 17:01:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov11.143433.18514@news.weeg.uiowa.edu> jboggs@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (John D. Boggs) writes:
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- >From article <1992Nov11.005151.15358@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>, by jenkins@fritz (Steve Jenkins):
- >>
- >> Oxygen, like many gases, has narcotic effects at very high pressures,
- >> such as in deep-sea diving. It can cause blindness in newborns
- >>
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- >Yes to blindness in newborns, but it is the *nitrogen* that has the narcotic
- >effect in deep sea diving -- hence the use of helium for the really really
- >deep dives.
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- >Trust me, I'm a librarian.
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- _MAYBE_ to blindness in newborns. There are anti-blindness drugs
- that apparently sometimes work and have been used on newborns who
- are born with lung disorders and need pure oxygen in their first
- weeks of life.
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- I personally ;-) know of _one_ case...
-
- --
- Phil Fraering
- In the country of the blind....
- 60 minutes doesn't run stories about people trying to ban hearing
- implants!
-