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Meanwhile, the oxygen masks will probably drop from the ceiling. This, too, may look exceedingly ominous. But you won't die if you don't get a mask on, provided you were already generally healthy. "Passing out is about the worst thing that would happen," Curtis says...
There are only about 10 to 15 minutes of oxygen on those masks anyway, and they are provided just to help keep you comfortable until the plane reaches a lower altitude, where you can breathe easily and without assistance. The most important thing is that the pilots get their masks on first - and they have been trained to do this much faster than you will get yours on. That said, it is best to put your mask on before helping anyone else, since you only have a matter of seconds before you may lose consciousness...
...flight can continue on in this surreal fashion for a while, with the oxygen masks dangling from the ceiling like so many IV lines, and passengers will usually remain relatively calm, as evidenced by video taken inside the Qantas flight. Decompression may be scary, but it is survivable...
...long ago, attempted acquisitions by interlopers from Dubai and China sparked a public outcry. But as long as the U.S. economy falters, nobody will grumble too loudly at this urgent injection of foreign cash. As they say on Wall Street, liquidity is like oxygen - you only notice how much you need it once it's gone. And if there's one thing these ascendant energy powers have, it's liquidity. Hundreds of billions of dollars...
...autonomic nervous system - even more than when you are awake. Probably each of us can remember waking up in the morning sometimes feeling very tired. That's because during that stage of dreams, we were running or facing some danger. Your heart was running, so it was consuming oxygen. And for similar reasons to those when you're awake, that activity is risky if you don't have a good vessel system...