/sci/ - Science & Math

>>4558091
>Why can't you just reduce the oxygen content of the helium-oxygen mixture and dive to the bottom of the Marianas trench?

Powerful madness beyond any naturally occurring neurological affliction. Increasing pressure gradually reduces the firing threshold of neurons.

>The symptoms of water pressure at 33-100 feet include mild impairment of performance of unpracticed tasks, mildly impaired reasoning and mild euphoria.

>Symptoms at 100-165 feet include delayed response to visual and auditory stimuli, diminished reasoning and memory capacity (to a greater extent than motor functions), calculation errors and wrong choices, obsessive fixation on a single and sometimes arbitrary idea, over-confidence and an increased sense of well-being, laughter and a tendency to talk much more than usual.

>Symptoms at 165-230 feet include sleepiness, impaired judgment, confusion, hallucinations, severe delay in response to signals/instructions, dizziness, uncontrollable laughter/hysteria, and occasionally terror.

>Symptoms at 230-300 feet include poor concentration and mental confusion, stupefaction with further decreased dexterity and judgment, greater loss of memory and increased excitability.

>Symptoms at 300 feet and beyond include severe hallucinations, increased intensity of vision and hearing, sense of impending blackout, euphoria, dizziness, manic or depressive states, a sense of levitation, disorganization of the sense of time, changes in facial appearance, and in some cases unconsciousness or death. All of this assumes a normal atmospheric mixture, hence the use of alternative breathing gases like hydrox, heliox, nitrox and trimix for different depth ranges, requiring very deep dives to transition from one breathing gas to the next on descent and ascent.

>>4163537

>If you are equating a soul with 'magic' and 'ghosts' it is no wonder you do not understand them.

No, you're misusing the term.

>It seems you do not even want to understand.

There is nothing TO understand. You're wrong, and that's the end of it.

>Ironic seeing as you are conscious yet do not even believe in your own soul.

Soul is not another word for consciousness. It is the supernatural essence of a person including consciousness, personality, memories and emotion which can leave the brain and exist apart from it after death. No such thing exists or is possible. It would be like trying to remove the song from a vinyl record and have it continue to play in thin air with no phonograph.

>You are rude and arrogant, you are not worth talking to.

You're Harriet. I think I come out ahead on this one.

http://boards.4chan.org/sci/16
Cool, but it doesn't work for /b/ or /tv/

Why are my balls always cold, /sci/?

>mfw when I realize that the journey will take decades or centuries before we arrive and that my virtual reality inducer doesn't work anymore