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...plane not been brought down quickly to a lower altitude, the passengers would soon have felt wobbly, slightly drunk, and would have lost consciousness in a few minutes. At 20,000 feet the pressure can be restored merely by diving, but at 40,000 feet an oxygen mask is needed. Above 52,000 feet, a new problem comes...
...Gelfan, an assistant professor of physiology, has learned that at 52,000 feet the barometric pressure of the air is so low that it is about equal to the pressure inside the tiny blood vessels of the lungs. Under such conditions, there is not enough pressure to force the oxygen through the walls of the blood vessels and into the bloodstream. Explained Dr. Gelfan: "At the moment of decompression . . . the pressure of oxygen in the blood would be greater than in the lungs, and under such circumstances oxygen is actually lost by the blood to the lungs...
...helium "ashes," while by far the most abundant, are not the only chemical elements which can be detected by sharp-eyed astronomers. The "main sequence" stars have, identically the same-composition as the sun: for every atom of any metal there are some six atoms of carbon, nitrogen and oxygen, 500 atoms of helium, and 5,000 atoms of hydrogen (still to be burned). The same proportions of atoms exist in the near vacuum of interstellar space. Not only do the universe's largest bodies behave in much the same fashion as its smallest atoms; its densest matter...
...Kokoschka, who thinks little of Picasso, was still as self-assured as ever. "Though I am no great painter," he said last week in Venice, "I prefer my own pictures to any other. Art is dying; I am its oxygen. When Kokoschka is finished, true art will be finished...
Other facts & figures were seeping out to the public. According to good authority, the speed reached by the rocket plane was probably above 1,000 m.p.h. When its oxygen & alcohol fuel was exhausted (after about two minutes at full power), the pilot had to land with dead controls, at 160 m.p.h. Two XS-1s have been built, the first for the Air Force, the second for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Both have reached supersonic speed, and four more of them are on order...