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> At one point, Robson says he was left upside down on a tarmac, literally sitting on his head for 24 hours because there wasn't enough room in the crate to tur
by danso 6y ago
> At one point, Robson says he was left upside down on a tarmac, literally sitting on his head for 24 hours because there wasn't enough room in the crate to turn around.
I'm surprised he survived this. I remember when David Blaine hung upside down in Central Park for 3 days – but every few hours he had to take a break: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1060038/Cheating-David-Blaine-booed-crowd-admits-upside-stunt-failure.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1060038/Cheati...
- cgijoe 6y agoAgree, and I just saw that caving docu-movie (The Last Descent) about that poor guy who got stuck upside down deep in the cave and couldn't move. He died in under 24 hours I believe.
- TedDoesntTalk 6y agoWhy would hanging upside down for 24 hours kill you (serious question)? Doesn't the heart pump blood with the same efficiency regardless of its orientation?
- brazzy 6y agoThe heart isn't responsible for pumping blood through your body all by itself, it's supported by the skeletal-muscle pump - but that only works when your're moving. Hanging the right way up is in fact even worse and can kill you in less than an hour through something called a "suspension trauma".
- waheoo 6y agoI wonder if this is why sitting at a desk is so bad for us. Half way to torture.
- grecy 6y agoYes indeed. The word for paid work in French is travail, which has the same Latin base as the word torture.
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- pezezin 6y agoI didn't know about that but you are right. Not only French, also Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician, and maybe other language. It comes from a torture instrument called "tripalium", literally "three sticks".
- totetsu 6y agoThats why you need foot straps on your fall arrest harness. https://www.nationalsafetyinc.com/mobile/ReliefStep-Fall-Protection-Rescue-Device-P737815.aspx https://www.nationalsafetyinc.com/mobile/ReliefStep-Fall-Pro...
- msrenee 6y agoI thought that happened with fall arrest harnesses as the leg straps cut off the blood supply through your inner thigh. It's not so much the suspension, but where the straps cross.
- brazzy 6y agoNo,that's not true. The femoral vein is too deep to be cut off. The position of the leg straps is relevant because proper leg straps allow you to hang in a sitting position.
- msrenee 6y agoHuh. I suppose thinking back the guy that told me that generally didn't know what he was talking about. I never bothered to double check. I don't do anything that I need a fall arrest system anymore, but maybe I should do some reading.
- parliament32 6y agoThat's not true, I've definitely spent more than an hour hanging around in a rock climbing harness.. and that's just two thigh straps + waist.
- brazzy 6y agoIt absolutley is true. The thigh straps are exactly what prevent suspension trauma because they allow you to take a sitting position rather than having your legs hanging straight down, so there is much less distance to overcome. Besides, you generally move around while rock climbing, so the skeletal-muscle pump is engaged.
- mikestew 6y agoYour lungs can get squished (as was hypothesized to be the case with the aforementioned caver), bursting blood vessels in the brain, and (news to me) according to the article below, your heart eventually has trouble pumping when you're inverted. https://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/science-questions/hang-upside-down-how-long-safe-deadly.htm https://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/science-questio...
- starkd 6y agoAnd they actually thought slapping a "fragile" and a "this side up" stickers on the crate would help. It shows a naivete. It's sort of like the "do not copy" prohibitions embedded on a set of keys.
- luxuryballs 6y agoYeah I wonder if there is a better build so that it could only sit properly with one side down.
- yreg 6y agoOr at least prevent siting upside down. Add a triangular roof to the top side?
- luxuryballs 6y agoYeah or round it off, or... get a plane ticket, guess if you don’t want a vaccine maybe shipping ourselves will become viable.
- mysterydip 6y agoMaybe having a few smaller suitcases instead of one larger would allow for a sokoban-style rearrangement while inside?
- dhosek 6y agoLuggage has changed a lot since this happened. I can still remember when the now-ubiquitous overhead bin–sized luggage with retractable handles and wheels came out and that was a couple decades after this event. I don't think that would have necessarily been an option. My recollection of my family's luggage when I was a kid was that there were pretty much full-sized suitcases and toiletry cases and nothing really in-between, plus everything was a rigid hards shell.
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- amelius 6y agoPerhaps his legs were folded down in that crate, so blood pressure wouldn't increase that much.
- baby 6y agoHe might not have been completely upside down, although I’m not sure if there’s a difference.
- andi999 6y agoAlso it might not have been 24 hours