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- From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
- Newsgroups: sci.space,alt.sci.planetary
- Subject: Re: Lunar "colony" reality check
- Date: 11 Nov 1992 17:52:42 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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- References: <1992Nov11.005151.15358@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>,<1992Nov11.143433.18514@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov11.143433.18514@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>, jboggs@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (John D. Boggs) writes:
- =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
- =>
- =
- =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.
-
- If oxygen at high pressures DIDN'T cause the bad effects, why bother mixing it
- with helium? Yes, nitrogen has narcotic effects at high pressure, but so does
- oxygen.
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- organization responsible for it. If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to
- hold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.
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