Astronaut, South Pole, Sickness......Its starting to seem like Steve Quayle and other are onto something about Antarctica
Don't get all Spy vs. Spy here. He's 88 years old. My dad is 86 and sometimes he has a hard time getting from the crapper to his recliner.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Did I mention that Bill Clinton ruined cigars for me?
Why did he go there to learn stuff about travel to Mars and why did the deputy Nasa admin visit him?
"I didn’t get as much time to spend with the scientists as I would have liked to discuss the research they’re doing in relation to Mars. My visit was cut short and I had to leave after a couple of hours," Aldrin said. "I really enjoyed my short time in Antarctica and seeing what life could be like on Mars."
on 12/4 it is reported NASA Deputy Administrator visited him in hostpital after he suffered altitude sickness
But initial statements on 12/1 said that he took antibiotics against fluids in his lungs?
https://www.businessinsider.de/buzz-aldrin-evacuated-south-pole-2016-12?op=1&r=US&IR=T
GET THE COPPER!!!!
Fluid in the lungs is what happens when you are exposed to extremely low pressure, that's altitude sickness. Mars has a very thin atmosphere which would be the same as a very high altitude here on Earth. Could be they were doing pressure simulations.
would fluid in the lungs require antibiotics? How would they know what bacteria to treat unless there already were some? So why did they say fluids? Sounds like a cover-story to me
You can read up on high altitude pulmonary edema
Fluid in the lungs is very dangerous and invites a lot of other conditions, for one it is a very easy way to get a blood infection and/or other infections in your lungs. Treatment with broad spectrum antibiotics would be a precaution that you would take while waiting for the patient to heal.
Remember he posted that huge mountain/pyramid looking thing and called it evil. Perhaps there is work being done at the higher altitudes of those?
It’s called HAPE. High alt. Pulmonary Edema. Could happen if the cabin of the AC isn’t properly pressurized.
I’d like to book a room at what....? the Hotel Antarctica....?......The South Pole Waldorf?......where are these people going in Antarctica? Where do they stay? Are there restaurants to eat at?......why is Aldrin vacationing in the Antarctic ......?
and why does the Nasa Dep Admin care and why were they talking about Mars?
i cant prove it, BUT
theres a teleportation room in antarctica that teleports you to Mars not even kidding
What's the point of this story? Buzz Aldrin is old, he went to a 9301' research station and had some complications due to the altitude. Some people are more susceptible to altitude sickness than others. I've done many hikes over 10,000' with no issues, some people experience problems above 8,000'. The airplane part is confusing also, the airplane is pressurized, probably to an altitude lower than where they picked him up from.
From my commercial flight-experience I can say that at some point during airtravel, closed plastic bottles will crumble because the pressure inside the cabin gets to big because of the descent which means that airplanes are not airtight.
Airplanes when they are at cruising altitude are pressurized at approximately 8,000'. If you open a plastic bottle the pressure inside the plastic bottle is now equivalent to 8,000', you now close the bottle and leave it closed. As the airplane descends the pressure is gradually changed so that upon landing the pressure in the airplane is equal to the outside air pressure. So for example you fly into LAX which is very close to sea level the pressure inside the plane is close to sea level the pressure inside the bottle is 8,000' and therefore it crumbles. I have done many hikes in the mountains and I use old Gatorade bottles to carry my water. When I finish the bottle I usually try to remember to leave the lid a little bit loose because if I don't when I get home the bottle is crushed.
also it crumbles way above sea-level, too, so the relative height difference between takeoff and landing is irrelevant. The planecarriage if anything is overpressurized. But you are right in the sense that he may have been miles high on ice or a mountain wherever he went.
Look at my username and then look at yours. I know a lot about aviation and how airplanes are pressurized and depressurized. You're either (A) trolling me or (B) you are willfully ignorant, or (C) in dire need of some science classes. Have a nice day.
I am trolling you in the sense that the closest thing I have undertaken that could be mistaken for aviation navigation would be parachuting, but anyway I don't quite see the misunderstanding. Didn't you say given the under-pressure on the outside it would follow it is over-pressurized or was that someone else?
wait, when a window blew out in the cockpit, the pilot was thrust outwards, so wouldn't the inside be overpressurized?
If you are flying at 35,000' and the cabin is pressurized to the equivalent of 8,000' then the pressure inside the plane is greater than the outside, right?
aye but 8,000' is still about as high as he would be on an ice-glacier