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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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To: rlmorel
Yeah, one of the things from the Apollo 1 fire was the heavy use of velco made from O2-loving plastic. So in addition to the pressurized O2 capsule, it had extra O2 molecules clinging about.

In grade school, one kid's father worked at a nearby NASA facility, who showed up one day for a presentation in the cafeteria to our grade. I remember him tossing a cup of LOX on a drape. Little did anybody know the dangers at the time, too distracted by the oohs and ahhs of PDQ vaporization.

He also brought along Glen's pressure suit from the Mercury flight.

22 posted on 04/12/2016 12:54:06 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: rlmorel

The Safety Officer’s gonna have my ass!


28 posted on 04/12/2016 3:50:35 PM PDT by real saxophonist ( YouTube + Twitter + Facebook = YouTwitFace.com)
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