• Gordon Calhoun@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Huh, guess I’m wrong. Dangit sci-fi books, you lied to me. I always thought that’s why nitrogen-rich environments were so insidiously dangerous as opposed to CO2-flooded ones, because the body is hardwired to detect and panic in response to CO2 suffocation, but there’s no such innate detection mechanism for low-O2 or high-N2 (or argon or any other inert gas) places.

    25 minutes is pretty amazing for a body to survive in a hypoxic environment. That sounds like it was a horrible experience for everyone. It would seem there’s no good way to die…