[ExI] Update on the Hawaiian observatory shutdown

[Adrian Tymes]

On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 8:55 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> *From:* spike at rainier66.com <spike at rainier66.com>
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> >…Failing that, we could make a closed system oxygen-enriched
> office/sleeping space.  It would not be pressurized but more like a warm
> car on a cold day, with that kind of doors, a rubber seal but at ambient
> pressure.  Instead of about 20% oxygen in there it would be about 33%, so
> that the oxygen level is about the same as down at the women’s locker room
> where the invisible man lives.   spike
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> Another idea: to compensate for the elevated fire risk in an
> oxygen-enriched chamber, the proles could wear wool clothing.
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Or, y'know, just don't enrich the oxygen.  Add nitrogen as well as oxygen,
keeping the fraction of oxygen the same as at ground level and making it 1
atmosphere pressure, similar to the ISS and Shuttle.  The airlock
environment itself could be useful for science, in addition to the
observatory.
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