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Careful! In order to cut costs, airlines mix nitrogen into the air they pump into the plane, almost 50% sometimes!

(archived from vani hari, the "food babe":)

http://www.freezepage.com/1415667665TBMRBWICKU

Someone here needs to invent a mask that can filter out all that nitrogen

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Is that a joke? Normal breathable air is made of 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Earth). Thanks god is not all oxygen otherwise you will catch fire in practically 0 seconds. On the pressurization that compress your body. But the problem is, they pressurize the plane to the same level of between 3000-6000 feet. It is less then the pressure you usually feel. So doesn't make sense.

You are so obviously a shill of Big Nitrogen. How do you sleep at night?

You cannot prove it, besides I can tell you obviously work for the airlines.

Catch fire? 1 bar of oxygen is on the lower end of toxicity, with the only health effects taking hours to manifest. Fires that already exist will burn faster but there's no direct physical danger.

http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/hse8.pdf In pure oxygen some material will start combustion autonomously. But even worst, every possible cause of fire (simple friction, sparkles, etc...) that normally are not an issue, became a deadly hazard. But my point was, no, the air we breath normally is not 100% oxygen, fortunately...

My father was navigator in B-17s. They flew at 30,000 feet, and needed to wear oxygen masks. He told me that the funny thing with that was the chain smokers who couldn't last 8 hours between smokes. A cigarette wouldn't stay lit at 30,000 feet. So the smoker would take a breath from the mask, blow on the cigarette causing it to burn like a torch, take a quick puff, then take another quick breath from the mask, blow on the sputtering cigarette to reignite it, all in an endless loop.

>In pure oxygen some material will start combustion autonomously.

What materials? That guide doesn't list any. Acetylene ignites, but that's generally what you want anyway, right?

How do you know? Have you ever actually analyzed the nitrogen content of air? I think you just believe what the airlines want you to believe.

I wonder what would happen is the nitrogen is increased to 78%?

"food babe" == "Landover Baptist" of food.

How dare you. If it wasn't for the food babe, we wouldn't know that microwave ovens destroy the structural purity of water in the same way as demonic possession.

http://www.science20.com/cool-links/the_food_babe_took_down_...

The reason it's "archived" from there is because she deleted it, for obvious reasons.

Someone please tell me this is a joke site. I like this quote

"Just think about it – Airplanes thrive in places we don’t. You are traveling in a pressurized cabin, and when your body is pressurized, it gets really compressed! [...] your body’s digestive organs start to shrink [...]"

I wish it was a joke, but Ms. Hari is getting rich with this shit.

I bet they put dihydrogen monoxide in the complementary beverages as well!

If you ask me, "Food babe" is as credible as whale.to.

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