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Re:Breath of God: Tripping on Xenon Gas by golergka on Thursday June 27, 2024 @10:59AM (#40811258)
If you mean to use it for space travel, may be xenon being an anaesthetic is a feature, not a bug?
Re:Breath of God: Tripping on Xenon Gas by cess11 on Thursday June 27, 2024 @11:22AM (#40811530)
It's a potent dissociative, you'll black out before you reach concentrations required for this purpose.
Re:Breath of God: Tripping on Xenon Gas by BizarroLand on Thursday June 27, 2024 @12:22PM (#40812230)
I suppose that if we ever develop some sort of hypersleep/suspended animation or whatever we want to call it then being dissociated by a noble gas before the system kicks in might be a good idea.
Re:Breath of God: Tripping on Xenon Gas by golergka on Thursday June 27, 2024 @12:26PM (#40812285)
You're in a rocket on top of thousands of tons of explosives, everything runs automatically, there's terrifying noise all around and you don't control anything.

Blacking out in dissociative euphoria still sounds like a feature, not a bug to me.

Re:Breath of God: Tripping on Xenon Gas by cess11 on Thursday June 27, 2024 @03:56PM (#40814416)
Why would there be noise and explosives?

Personally I'd prefer to not be put in a coma in such an environment.

Re:Breath of God: Tripping on Xenon Gas by indoordin0saur on Thursday June 27, 2024 @01:31PM (#40812931)
Sounds like you don't like a good time :-P
Re:Breath of God: Tripping on Xenon Gas by mathsmath on Thursday June 27, 2024 @01:46PM (#40813081)
I had a similar experience recently. Massive turbulence on a commercial flight low over the continental divide flying into Denver.

I personally witnessed 3 people vomiting, but I was all smiles the whole time. I am in small planes a lot, so kind of enjoy the bumps when it’s someone else’s job to fly now.

Re:Breath of God: Tripping on Xenon Gas by rhelz on Thursday June 27, 2024 @12:52PM (#40812526)
chuckle maybe for the jaded frequent flyer, but if I go up in a rocket I wanna experience everything, even a blow up if it happens.