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It is not the fans that cause such a supperstition it is suffocation/hypothermia caused by continuous air flow that the superstitious think is the problem.
by buugs 17y ago
It is not the fans that cause such a supperstition it is suffocation/hypothermia caused by continuous air flow that the superstitious think is the problem.
- GavinB 17y agoThere are a lot of different reasons for this, including the fan blades chopping the oxygen molecules in half. My cousin had a roommate in South Korea who believed that the fan would create a vortex that sucked the air from the room, creating a fatal vacuum. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death#Beliefs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death#Beliefs
- ajju 17y ago"chopping the oxygen molecules in half" The fans in Korea must have really fine blades.
- favouriteduck 17y agoor really big oxygen molecules o_O