brixtonA23
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- Aug 5, 2011
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I was watching a documentary about Mount Everest and the deadliest storm. I was informed that after 8000 metres you enter the death zone, where as humans we cannot function due to altitude. Mountaineers have overcome this by taking oxygen to maintain their walk to the summit. Even in real footage they walk, very slowly, and if recording their journey, pant like a dog asking for water.
My problem is that the moon isn't exactly kind to us, yet the brave Apollo astronauts jumped around, played golf and had a drive on an oxygen free satellite. Even their live feed never sounded as though they were in anyway suffering.
Can anybody tell me why the technology (and physiology) to visit an oxygen free environment is surmountable but not the death zone on the planet that we live in?
My problem is that the moon isn't exactly kind to us, yet the brave Apollo astronauts jumped around, played golf and had a drive on an oxygen free satellite. Even their live feed never sounded as though they were in anyway suffering.
Can anybody tell me why the technology (and physiology) to visit an oxygen free environment is surmountable but not the death zone on the planet that we live in?