Tripping on Xenon Gas (2023)

Post by NoMoreNicksLeft » Thu, Jun 27, 2024, 4:22 PM UTC

pfdietz wrote: post #126

It's a shame xenon is an anesthetic. If it did not have that effect, one could pressure xenon until it was the same density as the body. It would still be a gas, and one could include some oxygen in it so one wouldn't suffocate (although breathing could be more laborious, perhaps require mechanical support). Suspended in this gas, one could be subjected to much higher acceleration without injury, up the point that de…

Post by gambiting » Thu, Jun 27, 2024, 4:26 PM UTC

david-gpu wrote: post #147

perihelions wrote: post #105

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We broke major safety rules doing the opposite. Carrying various steel tanks up stairs that were way too heavy for two, under-gymed, college students, one step at a time, resting the tank on every step while half of it cantilevered over the edge, as we hand-stabilized it... I wanted to avoid thinking about that failure mode where you accidentally cleave some part of the gas regulator by damaging it, and that turns th…

> they showed us the correct method. It was simply to send the tank up in the elevator unattended—one undergrad pushing the "up" button and stepping out, the other waiting for it on the destination floor. Stupidly simple. That works great until somebody in an intermediate floor enters the elevator oblivious to the risk and suffocates.

Post by BizarroLand » Thu, Jun 27, 2024, 4:32 PM UTC

perihelions wrote: post #51

jkingsman wrote: post #24

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I think this is an unnecessarily polarized admonition. Alcohol is arguably more than possibly-lethal, but many people exercise a reasonable risk calculus that allows them to enjoy it, and even enjoy it to a low level to moderate excess (on occasion), and that doesn't necessarily indicate pathological drug abuse. An unusual medically-safe (in medical contexts) anesthetic generating curiosity about recreational effects…

- "An unusual medically-safe (in medical contexts) anesthetic" It's a heavier-than-air asphyxiant and the contexts are not medical. It takes somewhat rose-tinted glasses to assume every person abusing this anesthetic will do so safely, under professional supervision, in some expensive clinic. Or that the anesthetic spas will be competently regulated and ethical. Inert gas asphyxiation is instant death .

Post by idiotsecant » Thu, Jun 27, 2024, 4:53 PM UTC

snaeker58 wrote: post #111

idiotsecant wrote: post #34

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A magnet will pass by a hard drive and emerge totally unchanged. It doesn't mean the hard drive was not changed

I wouldn’t use such analogies on wildly unrelated subjects. Saying „The long term effects of Xenon on the human body and brain are still mostly undocumented when it comes to repeated recreational use.“ sounds so much better! Especially since almost all common magnets don’t actually effect a hard drives functionality. The internet states you need a magnet with a force of 0,5kg to actually cause data loss. So we’re tal…

Post by racional » Thu, Jun 27, 2024, 5:12 PM UTC

rabite wrote: post #145

racional wrote: post #143

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They weren't ideologically into Nazism. The point is -- he was a willing collaborator. And you went out of your way to describe his actions as "at any given time, prudent for his country".

Yes. It was prudent to do anything to save Ukraine. Absolutely. If you love your country you'd deal with the devil himself to save it from what Russia was doing. 10 million people died in Genrikh Yagoda's torture chambers. Another 5 million starved to death in the holodomor. Hitler was bad, sure, but only a third as bad as the Bolsheviks. And about half of those 15 million deaths happened in Ukraine, and Bandera's fi…