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- From: jboggs@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (John D. Boggs)
- Subject: Re: Lunar "colony" reality check
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.145044.6306@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>
- Sender: jboggs@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (John D. Boggs)
- Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
- References: <1drh9aINN91n@gap.caltech.edu>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 14:50:44 GMT
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- From article <1drh9aINN91n@gap.caltech.edu>, by carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick):
- > In article <1992Nov11.143433.18514@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>, jboggs@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (John D. Boggs) writes:
- > =>
- > =
- > =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.
- > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Well, I'm not saying it doesn't have bad effects, I'm saying it doesn't have
- *narcotic* effects. However, it's been pointed out to me via e-mail that
- oxygen does indeed have narcotic effects as well as the nasy poison kill-you
- effects at high pressure.
-
- I guess we just got incomplete information in my dive classes. Or maybe
- it's just that at sport diving depths nitrogen narcosis is much more likely
- to set in that any narcotic effects of oxygen. Live & learn.
-
- -John D. Boggs uunet!erato!jdb
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