To: presidio9
One thing that is misleading in the article is the conflation of absolute oxygen pressure with partial pressure. At 14000 feet today (or 4593.1785 metres for the Europeans), the total pressure is quite low compared to sea level but the oxygen-nitrogen ratio is nearly the same. A low partial pressure of oxygen at sea level doesn't imply high-altitude conditions.
22 posted on
11/04/2003 11:13:47 AM PST by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: Doctor Stochastic
or 4593.1785 metres for the Europeans
Anguish bows to your effort to make life easier for us metric folks :)
25 posted on
11/04/2003 11:23:38 AM PST by
anguish
(while science catches up.... mysticism!)
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