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...membrane, they calculate, the organisms could range from the size of a pingpong ball to more complex and thicker-skinned gas spheres many times larger. Despite their internal hydrogen, Sagan jokes scientifically, there would be little danger of miniature Hindenburg disasters; there is little or no free oxygen in the Venusian atmosphere to support an explosion of hydrogen...
Three weeks ago, Mike McCuan, a popular 18-year-old Medford, Ore., high school senior, took the same deadly trip. In each case, Freon-12, an odorless, colorless cryogenic gas, may have frozen the victim's larynx, cutting off oxygen to the lungs; in McCuan's death, it also caused massive accumulation of fluids in the lungs...
Died. Clifton C. Williams Jr., 35, U.S. astronaut in training for the Apollo moon program; when his T-38 jet trainer crashed, possibly because of an oxygen failure; near Miccosukee, Fla., thus bringing to eight the number of astronaut fatalities since the program began in 1959, four in T-38 crashes...
...TIME, Sept. 22) is virtually the same as the basaltic rock that forms the ocean floors and is found in such widely scattered locations as the Hudson River Palisades, the Brazilian Plateau, the Hawaiian Islands and India. Like its counterpart on earth, the lunar material consists largely of oxygen (58%) and silicon (18.5%). It also contains aluminum (6.5%), iron-nickel (5.5%), magnesium (3%), and smatterings of carbon...
Modern medicine has a battery of devices that greatly reduce the dangers of heart attacks - provided they are used in time. The electrocardiograph gives the physician a continuous moving pic ture of how the damaged heart is behaving. A simple oxygen system will do the patient's breathing for him. If his heart stops, electric paddles restart...