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Ep 115 Altitude Sickness: Balloons though?

This Podcast Will Kill You

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The History of Altitude Sickness

In this one word, hypoxia, there are crammed hundreds of years of scientific investigations and observations. We have to know what things can cause oxygen levels to drop and why. The history of altitude sickness is not one filled with the daring exploits of a bunch of dudes attempting to climb the world's tallest mountain. But instead it will be a history of scientific discovery that brought us from not knowing that air exerts pressure, or that oxygen existed.

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