The Deep - how many physiology errors can you spot?
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Billy Butcombe
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Well go on Doc - which bits ?
mrodoc
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They are at 2000 foot depth in a sub with a moon pool. ie they are all living at 2000 depth pressure. There are no gas mixtures at present that allow people to do this. they mentioned hydrox which gives you narcosis and neonox which is neon and oxygen and to my knowledge this is no good either. So how are they are surviving and also not having squeaky voices? 
Peter Burgess
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Maybe thay are aliens from the moon Europa, but then again, all aliens have squeaky voices, so how does that work?
Billy Butcombe
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But will the alians get them ?? Next thrilling installment tonight !
mrodoc
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You really only get the squeaky voices breathing helium. It's all above gas density. the deeper you go the more effort it is to breathe anyway but helium being a light gas, when inhaled, causes the vocal cords to vibrate in a different way. If you breathe sodium hexafluoride this makes your voice deep like those old style cinema trailer voice overs.
Duncan Price
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mrodoc said:Just watched the first episode. Entertaining but the explorers have interesting physiologies
More interesting is their dress sense - one of the crew appeared to be wearing a nice cardigan from Top Shop*. I know astronauts can work on the ISS in a "shirt sleves" enviromnment but they mostly wear regulation NASA T-shirts rather than looking like they're off to a cheese & wine party.
* not that I'd know - information from s/o. I prefer the attire now being sold in what was Bat Products.
Peter Burgess
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Oh, what is the shop like now? Isn't it an Ann Summers outlet these days?Duncan Price said:
Duncan Price
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Peter Burgess said:Oh, what is the shop like now? Isn't it an Ann Summers outlet these days?Duncan Price said:
Sadly not - it appears to be some ecological clothes exchange type operation (I did not investigate too closely).
Peter Burgess
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Ah! "Second hand clothes shop".
Duncan Price
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Ralf said:mrodoc said:
In a high pressure hydrox habitat narcosis would be the least of the problems
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(oh, sorry, old thread, didn't notice... )
Not if the % age of oxygen is below 4% which is the lower explosive limit.
At 2000 ft the pressure is about 60 bar and you could easily breathe less than 0.5% O2 99.5% H2. Getting there and back is another problem.