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I would rather die in an implosion that running out of air at 3,000 metres over the course of several days.

• sokoloff 3y ago
  You will never “run out of air” at 3000 meters. That’s under 10K feet. Even pilots only have to wear oxygen for sustained flight about 12.5K feet (and that’s for cognition, not survival).
  • ceejayoz 3y ago
    You will absolutely run out of air 3000 meters underwater, as being discussed here.
    • sokoloff 3y ago
      Ah geez, my bad. I was crossing this with the sub thread on the relative risks of K2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36395397 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36395397
      • Balgair 3y ago
        Ok, now I'm curious. How do you read and comment? I'm a one-thread-at-a-time kinda person. I read, I comment on things if I want to, then I move on to other threads.
        • sokoloff 3y ago
          I more or less do that as well, but after each comment, I’m dropped back on the thread that I’m still halfway through. Depending on how I scroll and how the comments are re-ordered (as they’re voted on), I’m subject to crossing sub-threads, especially on mobile and when I’m partly killing time. In this case, I was in an Uber and then an airport so a little more prone to start-stop even within the one article. That’s an explanation and not really an excuse. This one was sloppy, as I guess they all would be.