Re:Breath of God: Tripping on Xenon Gas
by golergka on Thursday June 27, 2024 @10:59AM
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If you mean to use it for space travel, may be xenon being an anaesthetic is a feature, not a bug?
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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
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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.
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.
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
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Sounds like you don't like a good time :-P
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.