O2 and Cypriot airliner crash

Bucky wrote:

I don't get it. Can't a person stay conscious for longer than 30
seconds without breathing? Most people can hold their breath for over
a minute.

If the aircraft loses pressure at 35,000', you cannot hold your breath. The
pressure difference will force you to exhale. Nothing you can do about it.

But that's not the biggest deal. The biggest problem is the fact that the
ambient pressure at that altitude is too low to keep oxygen in your bloodstream.
All the oxygen immediately begins to flow out of your bloodstream into your
lungs and out into the surrounding air. It doesn't matter whether you breathe
or not.

George Patterson
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use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 18:54:18 GMT, George Patterson wrote:

If the aircraft loses pressure at 35,000', you cannot hold your breath. The
pressure difference will force you to exhale. Nothing you can do about it.

but apparently there was enough time to write a short message on the cell
phone and send it - if one can trust the news (*doh*).

#m


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In article , Martin Hotze wrote:
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 18:54:18 GMT, George Patterson wrote:

If the aircraft loses pressure at 35,000', you cannot hold your breath. The
pressure difference will force you to exhale. Nothing you can do about it.

but apparently there was enough time to write a short message on the cell
phone and send it - if one can trust the news (*doh*).

They arrested the person whom reported it a short time ago, it
apparently being a disgusting and cruel hoax.

-Dan

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 21:08:03 +0000 (UTC), Dan Foster wrote:

but apparently there was enough time to write a short message on the cell
phone and send it - if one can trust the news (*doh*).

They arrested the person whom reported it a short time ago, it
apparently being a disgusting and cruel hoax.

thanks for the info. I have to check that.

-Dan

#m

--
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed,
most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we
come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
-- Nathaniel Borenstein

Martin Hotze wrote:

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 18:54:18 GMT, George Patterson wrote:


If the aircraft loses pressure at 35,000', you cannot hold your breath. The
pressure difference will force you to exhale. Nothing you can do about it.


but apparently there was enough time to write a short message on the cell
phone and send it - if one can trust the news (*doh*).

You can't.

Matt