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Feedback: Chill out with a drop of oxygen

22 May 2013

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Chill with a drop of oxygen

WOODLAND Park, Colorado, is at an elevation of 2580 metres. Gary Branum told us this a while ago in a message that promptly got lost in our piling system but has now resurfaced. “So it’s not surprising,” he added, “that some flatlanders have a bit of trouble adjusting to the lower oxygen availability. It is, however, somewhat astounding that I can solve that problem by buying ‘liquid oxygen’ and adding it to my drinking water.”

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