"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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Craig Bingman wrote:
I understand your point, Derek, but I don't think you can say with
certainty
that the emergency oxygen systems have never saved a life. To say that,
we'd
really need to run the same disaster scenario twice, once with and once
without
the oxygen masks. It might be that the masks popping down have saved
lives by
preventing some folks from having heart attacks during depressurization
events. Maybe just by popping out and being reassuring in a silly dangly
orange
way. Or by giving people something that they believe is purposeful to do
during
a time of great stress.

And we need a placebo group to check this out where the oxygen masks come
down but _don't_ deliver oxygen to the passengers.
And another group where instead of oxygen masks, live tarantulas descend
onto the passenger's faces to see how many heart attacks that would
generate in times of extreme stress. Then there are those venomous snakes
in the cargo hold to consider. Tell the passengers about those right after
takeoff, and note if any have heart attacks right then and there, or if it
takes a flight attendant with a rubber snake attached to her throat
running screaming through the cabin to get the desired effect. ;-)

Snakes, on a plane!?!?!?!?! :-O

Jeff
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that your dog is finally getting enough cheese" - Deteriorata - National
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