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- From: sloubtin@dsg.cs.tcd.ie (Sylvain Louboutin)
- Subject: Re: How does the body adjust to high altitude?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.195258.15698@dsg.cs.tcd.ie>
- Organization: DSG, Dept. of Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin
- References: <1k1dioINN2lj@im4u.cs.utexas.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:52:58 GMT
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- In <1k1dioINN2lj@im4u.cs.utexas.edu> turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin) writes:
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- >-*----
- >This last ski vacation, for the first time in my life, I
- >suffered some altitude sickness. My first day on the slopes
- >ended after an hour with massive fatigue and a sense of
- >breathlessness. The second day I felt fine, even after
- >a whole day of skiing. Clearly, my body did something in
- >those 24 hours to adjust to the high altitude.
- >What did it do?
- >Russell
-
- another related question:
-
- the current altitude record with a sailplane (non-pressurised aircraft,
- although equipped with oxygen breathing system), is slightly more than
- 50,000 feet.
-
- what would be the highest possible altitude reachable safely without
- pressurisation (i.e., with the crew still able to operate an aircraft)?
- and what would happen higher? (I am not talking of hypozia, here as
- a breathing equipment is used.) In other words what would be the
- physiological limit to such records?
-
-
-
- --
- //Sylvain R.Y. Louboutin, ph:(+353-1)7021539, e-mail: Louboutin@dsg.cs.tcd.ie
- //Distributed System Group, O'Reilly Institute, room F.35, fax:(+353-1)6772204
- //Department of Computer Science, Trinity College, Dublin 2, -Ireland- ASK-18
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