Reply #147

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Sat Jun 9, 2012, 07:20 PM

trof (43,673 posts)

147. Actually it's so you recognize your symptoms of hypoxia.

Hypoxia (oxygen starvation) affect people in different ways.
This helps you to see how you feel when it happens so you know that's what the problem is and (hopefully) fix it.
Go to 100% oxygen, descend to a lower altitude, etc.

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Weird things you have accomplished [View all]	Aerows	Jun 2012	OP
Went out to spray water on fruit trees at 3:30 in the morning in my pajamas and a coat.	Denninmi	Jun 2012	#1
LMAO	Aerows	Jun 2012	#2
Cher, that story is so funny	Aerows	Jun 2012	#5
LOL. similar thing happened to me. Very hot day, so 2am, I went into my backyard	crunch60	Jun 2012	#117
OMG	Aerows	Jun 2012	#199
This message was self-deleted by its author	Baitball Blogger	Jun 2012	#166
Popped a double and a single bullseye (consecutively) throwing darts underhand.	HopeHoops	Jun 2012	#3
I went to the Renn Fest	Aerows	Jun 2012	#4
The only time I ever threw an axe it wasn't intentional - head popped off the handle.	HopeHoops	Jun 2012	#26
ROFL	Aerows	Jun 2012	#33
Actually there's a fair bet I was both drunk and stoned at the time (LONG time ago).	HopeHoops	Jun 2012	#36
Bad idea to use an axe in that condition	Aerows	Jun 2012	#93
The words that come to mind are "WELL DUH!!!" - but I was young.	HopeHoops	Jun 2012	#110
I first thought you said you pooped it	LynneSin	Jun 2012	#131
That would be, um, "different".	HopeHoops	Jun 2012	#133
White water canoed for 7 days and did not tip into the water once.	applegrove	Jun 2012	#6
Impressive	Aerows	Jun 2012	#8
I had a great canoeist steering. I was in the front.	applegrove	Jun 2012	#12
I want to canoe with you	Aerows	Jun 2012	#16
Canoeing in alligator infested waters? Boy you are brave. Man I'm glad I live in Canada.	applegrove	Jun 2012	#18
I live in the South	Aerows	Jun 2012	#20
It was here:	Aerows	Jun 2012	#195
Cool. Here is the Dumoine River. We did the seven day trip back 30 years ago.	applegrove	Jun 2012	#200
That looks BEAUTIFUL!	Aerows	Jun 2012	#202
Yup. It was gorgeous. And we passed moose as we canoed. Very beautiful part of the world.	applegrove	Jun 2012	#205
Delivered a calf	sharp_stick	Jun 2012	#7
What a wonderful story	Aerows	Jun 2012	#10
It was quite the experience	sharp_stick	Jun 2012	#22
It's rather wonderful	Aerows	Jun 2012	#32
yes, amazing...	handmade34	Jun 2012	#48
You are part of an amazing accomplishment	Aerows	Jun 2012	#83
wrong season but	handmade34	Jun 2012	#44
That's just beautiful	Aerows	Jun 2012	#82
This one involves a cow as well...	lastlib	Jun 2012	#128
i have that same story in my past too.	iemitsu	Jun 2012	#135
My grandmother had a cow	Aerows	Jun 2012	#197
Stuck 23 Planters Cheese balls in my mouth	geardaddy	Jun 2012	#9
How many Milk Duds	Aerows	Jun 2012	#11
I could probably get mor Milk Duds in my enormous gob.	geardaddy	Jun 2012	#13
:D	Aerows	Jun 2012	#14
I drove a locomotive.	CaliforniaPeggy	Jun 2012	#15
You did what!?	Aerows	Jun 2012	#17
You heard me, lol! I got to drive a locomotive...	CaliforniaPeggy	Jun 2012	#19
That's amazing!	Aerows	Jun 2012	#21
Thanks, but I was too young to be brave...I just knew I wanted to do it!	CaliforniaPeggy	Jun 2012	#23
What's amazing is that they asked you. I'm a boomer,	LuckyLib	Jun 2012	#142
You're right about that! I was amazed to have been asked too.	CaliforniaPeggy	Jun 2012	#145
That is very cool, Peggy! And a steam engine, no less!	Rhiannon12866	Jun 2012	#38
Hey! I 'kinda' did that too.	trof	Jun 2012	#42
This place never...	awoke_in_2003	Jun 2012	#108
Climbed to the top of the San Fransico Bay Bridge via the cable	NV Whino	Jun 2012	#24
OMG	Aerows	Jun 2012	#25
I will go search right now.	NV Whino	Jun 2012	#27
I look forward to seeing them :)	Aerows	Jun 2012	#34
Well, not in that box	NV Whino	Jun 2012	#39
LMAO "Not in that box"	Aerows	Jun 2012	#90
Water skied without getting wet.	bluesbassman	Jun 2012	#28
That's awesome!	Aerows	Jun 2012	#30
Not weird, but an accomplishment I'm proud of........	mrmpa	Jun 2012	#29
to the top of the Acropolis	Aerows	Jun 2012	#31
Thank you. A picture of my niece and I there, sits in my living room. eom	mrmpa	Jun 2012	#47
Yep, no flag but Greece's. I think it..........	mrmpa	Jun 2012	#81
I learned to ride a unicycle.	alphafemale	Jun 2012	#35
I'm a pretty serious skater	Aerows	Jun 2012	#94
Give it a try.	alphafemale	Jun 2012	#106
I can juggle	Aerows	Jun 2012	#112
How serious is your skating? ice or roller?	crunch60	Jun 2012	#118
Yes	Aerows	Jun 2012	#176
I am also a unicyclist!	CottonBear	Jun 2012	#161
It's just such a tiring thing to do.	alphafemale	Jun 2012	#162
If I were to go riding today, I could hardly walk tomorrow!	CottonBear	Jun 2012	#168
You could always put on skates :)	Aerows	Jun 2012	#181
Thanks! It's my ONLY unique skill. I tried rollerblades once. They're dangerous!	CottonBear	Jun 2012	#190
Roller blades	Aerows	Jun 2012	#196
Weird and dumb. On a bet, I snorted a shot glass full of Jack Daniels.	ohiosmith	Jun 2012	#37
Pulling a Pat Travers eh?	bluesbassman	Jun 2012	#41
OMG, LMFAO!	Aerows	Jun 2012	#179
I sat in an altitude chamber set to 25,000' for five minutes and did math problems	Major Nikon	Jun 2012	#40
Hey, me too.	trof	Jun 2012	#43
You kick ass Alabama	Aerows	Jun 2012	#95
That's impressive! :)	kentauros	Jun 2012	#125
They didn't do anything I thought was remotely barf inducing	Major Nikon	Jun 2012	#126
That sounds like it was more to train you to control it.	kentauros	Jun 2012	#139
Actually it's so you recognize your symptoms of hypoxia.	trof	Jun 2012	#147
No, I meant the part about the turning simulator	kentauros	Jun 2012	#148
All of you kick ass	Aerows	Jun 2012	#180
college bum.	Manifestor_of_Light	Jun 2012	#45
Took the most useless college course known to mankind.	Manifestor_of_Light	Jun 2012	#46
Don't tell Paul Stamets that!	BlueToTheBone	Jun 2012	#129
Slime molds are classified as fungi, but they are not.	Manifestor_of_Light	Jun 2012	#144
Now that is fascinating!	BlueToTheBone	Jun 2012	#151
Good! Don't know if my old professor is still kicking.	Manifestor_of_Light	Jun 2012	#152
One of my College profs had it in fiddler crabs and another in Venus Fly Traps	LynneSin	Jun 2012	#132
Flew to the edge of space. Lived to tell about it.	trof	Jun 2012	#49
WOW	Aerows	Jun 2012	#66
It was a real rush, for sure. How it happened:	trof	Jun 2012	#127
Very cool.	Ready4Change	Jun 2012	#134
I'm a very lucky person. Never paid for one minute of flying time.	trof	Jun 2012	#146
Glad you didn't auger it in....	AnneD	Jun 2012	#187
Let me reiterate	Aerows	Jun 2012	#96
Awesome	GiveMeFreedom	Jun 2012	#111
Entering the Way Back machine	HeiressofBickworth	Jun 2012	#50
That's awesome	Aerows	Jun 2012	#67
I wore the same thing when I picked my boyfriend up at the airport. Needless to say	crunch60	Jun 2012	#119
When I was	frogmarch	Jun 2012	#51
Frog	Aerows	Jun 2012	#69
I reacted without thinking that I	frogmarch	Jun 2012	#116
Some people have a "need to respond" to crisis, some people freeze.	crunch60	Jun 2012	#121
So many hero's like yourself, that go unknown. You are an amazing and inspiring lady.	crunch60	Jun 2012	#120
I like knowing	frogmarch	Jun 2012	#123
Frogmarch....	AnneD	Jun 2012	#188
I got to name a new species of tapeworm.	HereSince1628	Jun 2012	#52
So please don't keep us all guessing --	truedelphi	Jun 2012	#53
It -IS- ok to laugh at this...Dildotaenia laterovarum	HereSince1628	Jun 2012	#54
heh. heh.	truedelphi	Jun 2012	#56
Dildo-taenia?	Aerows	Jun 2012	#79
taenia refers to tapeworm...so the genus name means	HereSince1628	Jun 2012	#100
LMAO	Aerows	Jun 2012	#105
More biology weirdoes. I am impressed.	Manifestor_of_Light	Jun 2012	#55
Glad you are having a good time	Aerows	Jun 2012	#77
Beat death from an infection.	sakabatou	Jun 2012	#57
I did, too	Aerows	Jun 2012	#76
Do you have any lasting damage?	sakabatou	Jun 2012	#88
I'm not sure	Aerows	Jun 2012	#89
This message was self-deleted by its author	sakabatou	Jun 2012	#97
I escaped those	Aerows	Jun 2012	#99
Pissed on both sides of the Berlin Wall.	era veteran	Jun 2012	#58
LOL	Aerows	Jun 2012	#75
missed meeting Lina Wertmueller at her house in Rome	noiretextatique	Jun 2012	#59
Sorry you missed out cher	Aerows	Jun 2012	#74
i believe she is still alive	noiretextatique	Jun 2012	#86
Got to hang glide twice,	Yavapai	Jun 2012	#60
I envy you	Aerows	Jun 2012	#73
Parasailed over Acapulco Bay. n/t	RebelOne	Jun 2012	#61
Never did that	Aerows	Jun 2012	#71
Parasailed off the beach in Ixtapa.	Manifestor_of_Light	Jun 2012	#101
Weird or Ironic...	FloriTexan	Jun 2012	#62
Did you get hit by the bus?	Aerows	Jun 2012	#65
Maybe not weird, but something I'm proud of..	Rainforestgoddess	Jun 2012	#63
God bless you	Aerows	Jun 2012	#64
We are so lucky to have people like you. So much hate against the LGBT community today.	crunch60	Jun 2012	#122
I drank a jar of mustard.	arbusto_baboso	Jun 2012	#68
Mustard is good	Aerows	Jun 2012	#70
Yeah, but this was a LOT of mustard.	arbusto_baboso	Jun 2012	#72
LOL	Aerows	Jun 2012	#78
4-H project. 100 day-old chicks, delivered in Februrary. In Montana.	Ptah	Jun 2012	#80
OMG Ptah	Aerows	Jun 2012	#84
Thanks, Aerows. Those are just google images.	Ptah	Jun 2012	#85
The cute chubby girl?	Aerows	Jun 2012	#87
No, the heart-throb, second fron the right.	Ptah	Jun 2012	#91
LMAO	Aerows	Jun 2012	#102
lived through the 60s.	mysuzuki2	Jun 2012	#92
LOL - so I understand	Aerows	Jun 2012	#103
dropping acid and going to the movie theater to see Ben Hur.	mysuzuki2	Jun 2012	#138
became an acknowledged expert on heirloom tomatoes!	NRaleighLiberal	Jun 2012	#98
Heirloom tomatoes	Aerows	Jun 2012	#104
And a real expert you is!	WestMichRad	Jun 2012	#107
Some day!	NRaleighLiberal	Jun 2012	#137
I survive Miami traffic 5 days a weeks	bluevoter4life	Jun 2012	#109
Indeed it is	Aerows	Jun 2012	#113
Went to school at USF so I know the feeling	bluevoter4life	Jun 2012	#150
I still shudder at thoughts of the damn Howard Frankland nightmare	Aerows	Jun 2012	#153
Rode a Greyhound Bus...	meeksgeek	Jun 2012	#114
"Rode a Greyhound Bus"	Aerows	Jun 2012	#157
I think you enjoyed your ride more than I did mine.	meeksgeek	Jun 2012	#169
It wasn't enjoyable	Aerows	Jun 2012	#171
Video gamer geek accomplishment:	chknltl	Jun 2012	#115
I beat Super Ghouls and ghosts...yep..two time through.	Evoman	Jun 2012	#159
I was 60 in D3	Aerows	Jun 2012	#175
Senior year of high school	kentauros	Jun 2012	#124
I once build the tallest block building on Romper Room	LynneSin	Jun 2012	#130
Hid out on a navy base for 2 days without getting caught. My BFF was in the	madmom	Jun 2012	#136
I was a contestant on Jeopardy.	Danmel	Jun 2012	#140
That's cool!	Aerows	Jun 2012	#154
here's a wierd one	backwoodsbob	Jun 2012	#141
Maybe we need a thread for bar-trick accomplishments	kentauros	Jun 2012	#149
Hey Kent :)	Aerows	Jun 2012	#155
Hey Aeros! :)	kentauros	Jun 2012	#158
Indeed you don't	Aerows	Jun 2012	#172
Went fishing for the first time in years and managed to ruin the reel on the first cast.	alarimer	Jun 2012	#143
I've never caught a fish :(	Aerows	Jun 2012	#156
I survived two "hits" placed on me.	Behind the Aegis	Jun 2012	#160
And i thought my life had more stress than average.	Baitball Blogger	Jun 2012	#167
You kick ass	Aerows	Jun 2012	#174
Drove completely across someone's lawn in my van	aint_no_life_nowhere	Jun 2012	#163
I Was World Frisbee Champion...	WiffenPoof	Jun 2012	#164
Neutered a calf. And some pigs as well.	sinkingfeeling	Jun 2012	#165
Don't know if this is really an accomplishment or not	Bluzmann57	Jun 2012	#170
"Allegedly"	Aerows	Jun 2012	#173
Theoretically	Bluzmann57	Jun 2012	#185
I can move my ears.	MrsBrady	Jun 2012	#177
That's cool!	Aerows	Jun 2012	#178
At age 19...	GaYellowDawg	Jun 2012	#182
LOL	Aerows	Jun 2012	#183
Well...	GaYellowDawg	Jun 2012	#184
Beat Sebastian Coe in a race	AngryAmish	Jun 2012	#186
Taught myself how to instantly tell the day of week for any date of the past century	IDemo	Jun 2012	#189
Cool. Can you teach us how to do that? n/t	CottonBear	Jun 2012	#191
It takes some memorization and simple arithmetic	IDemo	Jun 2012	#192
I count my knuckles	Aerows	Jun 2012	#198
First female ice cream truck driver in Central NJ	LiberalEsto	Jun 2012	#193
Awesome!	Aerows	Jun 2012	#203
I only did this for one summer	LiberalEsto	Jun 2012	#206
Completed	JonLP24	Jun 2012	#194
Contest in college for Easter Seals	ashling	Jun 2012	#201
7	Aerows	Jun 2012	#204
I had to sit through philosophy the next period.	ashling	Jun 2012	#207
LMAO!	Aerows	Jun 2012	#208

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