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To: Moonman62; rlmorel
IIRC, the guy was quite the alcoholic.

The first cosmonaut to die in the Soviet space program was because of alcohol too.

He was in a pressurized O2 chamber, and used an alcohol wipe to clean off the residue from an adhesive sensor on his skin. He tossed the pad, and instead of in the trash can, it landed on a heated, electric hot plate.

He had no chance.

12 posted on 04/12/2016 12:01:07 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Calvin Locke

IIRC, the guy was quite the alcoholic.

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Over there they simply call themselves Russians.


14 posted on 04/12/2016 12:04:00 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Calvin Locke
When I was in the Navy, they showed us a training film called "The Man From LOX" which was about liquid oxygen.

At the very end, they show some poor guy, burnt to a black crisp with his eyes looking very white, breathing through a trach tube, by common accounts, only minutes before he died.

It was a very powerful thing to show a bunch of impressionable eighteen year old guys.

Later, someone told me the story was, he put the tip of the hose inside his coveralls to let the venting oxygen mist cool him off on a very hot day. He then went to have a smoke, and when he lit up...he lit up like a human torch.

The training sure worked. Nobody I knew ever farted around with LOX.

17 posted on 04/12/2016 12:18:54 PM PDT by rlmorel ("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
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