From: SURNAME@panix.removethispart.com   
      
   In the previous article, Adam H. Kerman  wrote:   
   > This is criticism of you.   
      
   <*yawn*>   
      
   > "Please don't copy the ads when reposting an article copied from the   
   > Web to Usenet" would have been perfectly polite.   
      
   So your objection to my noting that it would be better to paste an   
   article with the ads stripped out is that I ... didn't suggest that   
   the ads be stripped out? Ohhhh...kayyyyyy ...   
      
   > Or how about the original criticism, that to make this method as   
   > lethal as quickly as possible and to keep the gas at a high enough   
   > concentration without leaking, the state literally needs to build a   
   > gas chamber?   
      
   Now, this is something I do happen to know a little bit about. A NRB   
   mask delivers 60-90% inspired concentration of the gas being delivered   
   at 15 l/m. At the *low* end of that delivery range, the inspired gas   
   is going to be 92% N2. That will always, always, always be lethal, and   
   pretty quickly so. You will probably deliver more N2 -- again, even   
   assuming the NRB is operating at the bottom of its range -- than you   
   could in any "gas chamber" you could realistically construct. There is   
   simply no reason for that.   
      
   I'm certainly in favor of offering very heavy sedation to the   
   condemned man if he wants it. That would mitiage any risk, though I'm   
   absolutely befuddled about what happened here. N2 does not cause a   
   sensation of suffocation -- quite the opposite. Google "nitrogen   
   narcosis."   
   --   
   jd   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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