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   Serigo to Fred J. McCall   
   Re: A smaller, faster version of the Spa   
   17 Oct 16 09:20:30   
   
   XPost: sci.space.policy, sci.physics   
   From: invalid@invalid.com   
      
   On 10/15/2016 6:00 AM, Fred J. McCall wrote:   
   > Alain Fournier  wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   > Crap.  The graph I looked at was in meters (and didn't label units)  I   
   > wish people wouldn't do that.  I should have noticed, though, that the   
   > pressure fall off was much too rapid, so my bad too.   
   >   
   > OK, rewrite.  Half the atmospheric pressure is gone at around 5500   
   > meters above MSL (when compared to MSL pressure).  That's about 18,000   
   > feet.  The city of La Rinconada in Peru is at 16,732 feet, so humans   
   > can damn near live in vacuum.  It's at around 55% sea level pressure.   
   >   
   >   
      
   Wrong again!  but this time you are lying.   
      
   "...so humans can damn near live in vacuum..."   
      
   your own # say 8.1 psi which is NOT a vacuum,   
   400 torr is NOT a vacuum   
      
   do you lie intentionally, or unintentionally ?   
      
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