Thursday, January 08, 2009

Mountaineers measure lowest human blood oxygen levels on record.
The expedition found the average arterial oxygen level to be 3.28 kilopascals or kPa (with the lowest value being 2.55 kPa); the normal value in humans is 12-14 kPa and patients with a level below 8 kPa are considered critically ill.
Cool!

Also, a landslide the size of the U.S., though it disappointingly happens to be on Mars.

Hat tips for both to The Adventure Blog.

3 comments:

Odious said...

Also, a landslide the size of the U.S., though it disappointingly happens to be on Mars.

This sort of thing is why we need to go.

Peculiar said...

Yeah, whenever I hear about that "deeper than the Grand Canyon" landform, I think, "Boating! Add some water!" Though I imagine the erosion in the first few decades would be really spectacular.

mdmnm said...

For now you just have to read the Kim Stanley Robinson "Mars" series, or at least the first two. He does have sailing and surfing on giant Mars-gravity waves, but no boating that I recall.