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What if you get sucked out of a plane? - Technology & science - Science - DiscoveryNews.com - msnbc.com
"There are a number of critical physiological problems that would be life-ending, likely within seconds," said Peter Wagner, a physician and physiologist at the University of California, San Diego. "Forget about the fact that you don’t have a parachute. You would be instantly exposed to very, very low oxygen levels. Within three or four seconds, my guess is that you would be breathing like hell."
Loss of consciousness and death would soon follow purely from oxygen deprivation to the brain, Wagner continued. At the same time, temperatures of -70 degrees Fahrenheit (-57 degrees Celsius) — made even colder by the chill of 500 mile-per-hour (805 kilometer-per-hour) winds — would lead to rapid freezing, beginning with the skin, eyes and other surface tissues.
In response to such extreme stress, your nervous system would go haywire, leading to potentially fatal spikes in blood pressure and heart rate. And the sudden change in air pressure would lead to a nasty case of the bends, as if you were scuba diving and came up too fast.
Then, there’s the danger of getting slammed into the plane on the way out, not to mention the trauma of falling.
"You would probably be cut in half or something, depending on what you hit and what part of the body connected," Wagner said. "All kinds of awful imagery are possible."
"There are a number of critical physiological problems that would be life-ending, likely within seconds," said Peter Wagner, a physician and physiologist at the University of California, San Diego. "Forget about the fact that you don’t have a parachute. You would be instantly exposed to very, very low oxygen levels. Within three or four seconds, my guess is that you would be breathing like hell."
Loss of consciousness and death would soon follow purely from oxygen deprivation to the brain, Wagner continued. At the same time, temperatures of -70 degrees Fahrenheit (-57 degrees Celsius) — made even colder by the chill of 500 mile-per-hour (805 kilometer-per-hour) winds — would lead to rapid freezing, beginning with the skin, eyes and other surface tissues.
In response to such extreme stress, your nervous system would go haywire, leading to potentially fatal spikes in blood pressure and heart rate. And the sudden change in air pressure would lead to a nasty case of the bends, as if you were scuba diving and came up too fast.
Then, there’s the danger of getting slammed into the plane on the way out, not to mention the trauma of falling.
"You would probably be cut in half or something, depending on what you hit and what part of the body connected," Wagner said. "All kinds of awful imagery are possible."
javaguru
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bad choice
loll..have you ever started the process of drowning? There is a reason "simulated drowning" is torture..
oh really? You said that we had a better chance of dying in our bathtub...what is the chance we are going to be murdered by drowning or tortured to death...or tortured at all?
If we die in our bathtub it's because we did it on purpose or because we hit our head and are not conscious. lol @ that being worse than a terrifying plane crash. Come on.
javaguru
Banned
Well, considering I volunteered to jump out of perfectly good airplanes into a combat zone...dying due to a mechanical malfunction or human error is pretty much irrelevant...
javaguru
Banned
oh really? You said that we had a better chance of dying in our bathtub...what is the chance we are going to be murdered by drowning or tortured to death...or tortured at all?
You can fall in the bathtub and not have it be a suicide or murder.... but that's irrelevant because the probability of death from flying is so small that it isn't worth considering as a way you might die. You would be better served by using your seat belt...
First, you're assuming that being afraid is greater than other forms of suffering; Perhaps to you it is.
Countless people die after falling and breaking their hip a long and painful process..as well as a number of other horrific degenerative diseases. Most people in this country linger and suffer from months to years before they die. Dying in a plane crash is merciful because it's quick.
I already said you could fall and hit your head.
You might feel that is a merciful death but that is your opinion. Who are you to tell me or anyone else what I should and shouldn't fear, and how I should and shouldn't want to die?
javaguru
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I'm all about personal choice mi amor but there are rational and irrational fears.
