{"quotes":[{"text":"This fits in with what I saw in staff in astronomical facilities and was reporting to the management team: 10-14% Oxygen: Emotional upset, abnormal fatigue, disturbed respiration.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["abnormal","astrobiology","astronomer","astronomical","astronomy","astrophysics","astrosociobiology","disturbed","emotional","facilities","fatigue","fits","management","osha","oxygen","reporting","respiration","saw","staff","team","upset"],"id":23964,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"High altitude astronomy is a strange world of oxygen starvation, sleep deprivation and radiation sickness.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["altitude","astronomy","deprivation","oxygen","radiation","sickness","sleep","starvation","strange","world"],"id":24116,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"I was caged within a four dimensional cube that eclipsed the world around me in an icy mist. I screamed; begging someone, anyone to hear my pleas, but my voice had been extinguished and left me with a slight wheeze from what little oxygen I had. I could glimpse the field of energy as it shrank through the safety of my circle to envelop me in a blazing grip. I was alone; unbearably separated from my haven.","author":"J.D. Stroube","tags":["alone","energy","haven","horror","magic","oxygen","paranormal","teen","ya"],"id":26479,"author_id":"J.D.+Stroube"},{"text":"Industrial liquid gas containers were left open and venting gas into the indoor environment in high altitude astronomy. On reflection, I realized that I routinely observed mental and physical effects that match those of a low oxygen environment in staff that I supervised.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["altitude","astrobiology","astronomer","astronomical","astronomy","astrophysics","astrosociobiology","containers","effects","environment","gas","high","indoor","industrial","liquid","low","mental","observed","osha","oxygen","physical","reflection","staff","supervised","venting"],"id":29802,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"When discharging industrial gas into the indoor environment in high altitude astronomy, we never wore breathing respirators that fed us oxygenated air at above the legally required 19.5% oxygen levels.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["air","altitude","astrobiology","astronomer","astronomical","astronomy","astrophysics","astrosociobiology","breathing","discharging","environment","fed","gas","high","indoor","industrial","legally","levels","liquid","osha","oxygen","oxygenated","respirators"],"id":39288,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"An open flask of industrial liquid gas that is venting into the indoor environment should be thought of as the same as a smoldering fire, as they both create a dangerous oxygen deficient environment for the human.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["dangerous","deficient","environment","fire","flask","gas","human","indoor","industrial","liquid","open","osha","oxygen","smoldering","venting"],"id":44763,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"When I worked at the W. M. Keck Observatory on the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, we would routinely be engulfed in cold clouds of helium and nitrogen gas as we discharged it into the video camera systems daily. The management team never warned us that we were in a hazardous oxygen deprived environment during this activity that was known for its ability to adversely affect physical and mental health, and possibly bring on death by asphyxiation.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["activity","adversely","affect","altitude","asphyxiation","camera","clouds","cold","daily","death","deprived","discharged","engulfed","environment","gas","hawaii","hazardous","health","helium","high","kea","keck","liquid","management","mauna","mental","nitrogen","observatory","oxygen","physical","summit","systems","team","very","video","warned"],"id":50117,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"Working on the summit of Mauna Kea was comparable to working on the hospital pulmonary ward with sick people sucking on oxygen cylinders.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["astronomy","astrophysics","comparable","cylinders","hospital","kea","lung","mauna","mountain","mountaineering","observatory","oxygen","people","pulmonary","sick","sucking","ward","working"],"id":60770,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"My memories of my time in high altitude astronomy indicate that there were no oxygen concentration monitors or alarms in the areas that liquid nitrogen was in use at the high altitude astronomical facilities where I had worked.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["alarms","altitude","astrobiology","astronauts","astronomer","astronomical","astronomy","astrophysics","astrosociobiology","concentration","facilities","gas","high","liquid","memories","monitors","nitrogen","oxygen","time","worked"],"id":61525,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"In Bio last year, I learned that blood is actually a dark maroon when it's inside your body. It's the exposure to oxygen that turns it bright red. And there must have been a lot of oxygen in my bathroom, because that blood was bright, bright red.","author":"Leila Sales","tags":["blood","cutting","oxygen"],"id":90620,"author_id":"Leila+Sales"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":44,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}