2022/07/19 - Altitude Sickness

[SeanWolf]

2022/07/19 - Altitude Sickness

Title Text: did Lois frumble Tarot's corn husk? we may never know.

Well, same time, Tarot? Alot HAS been happening today, so it would make sense people forgetting!

[Welsh Halfwit]

Everyone’s reasons for coming
are told us as a plot point;
it’s only when Lois talks
we know it’s out of joint.
I hope the pilot’s OK
or they’re all gonna die;
even Craig and Draig
as they can no longer fly.
And, when speaking of which,
there is something that’s odd.
We see everyone else here
but where is our naughty young Tod?

[NHWestoN]

The right bait for the right sucker ... I thought Tarot's logic was impac ... impek ... impec ... pretty smores ... smurf ... smoosh ... yeaah.

um ... bleah.

[D-Rock]

Well, this ain’t a good predicament.

[NHWestoN]

Isn't a mask supposed to ...or is it a scotch and soda?

[Amazee Dayzee]

Is it possible that the pilot who called Keene a terrorist MEANT it and was attempting to subdue him and everybody else and take them somewhere where they would all be imprisoned. It is VERY possible for the captain to depressurize the cabin of the plane in order to knock everybody else out. That is exactly what the pilot of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 did. According to the report, the captain depressurized the cabin which caused asphyxiation to all of the passengers leading to their deaths. He then used his own oxygen mask and crashed the plane killing everybody in a murder-suicide.

I think the pilot here might be doing something less extreme. Just depressurizing the cabin to knock everybody else and then landing and meeting with somebody to lock them all up. The captain in the cockpit would have his own mask.

[PhycoKrusk]

Is it possible that the pilot who called Keene a terrorist MEANT it and was attempting to subdue him and everybody else and take them somewhere where they would all be imprisoned. It is VERY possible for the captain to depressurize the cabin of the plane in order to knock everybody else out. That is exactly what the pilot of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 did. According to the report, the captain depressurized the cabin which caused asphyxiation to all of the passengers leading to their deaths. He then used his own oxygen mask and crashed the plane killing everybody in a murder-suicide.

I think the pilot here might be doing something less extreme. Just depressurizing the cabin to knock everybody else and then landing and meeting with somebody to lock them all up. The captain in the cockpit would have his own mask.

There are two major reasons why this is unlikely. The first is that Keene owns the plane, and if the pilot subdues them and deviated from the flight plan for any reason other than an actual emergency, that's hijacking, which would make the pilot a terrorist.

The second is that deviating from the flight plan for anything other than an actual emergency would almost certainly constitute a breach of contract, which will immediately involve lawyers.

[Welsh Halfwit]

I don't think it's oxygen problems. If it were, it would be all of them passing out, not just Tarot.

[VeryAngryDeer]

Hypoxia is no joke. Multiple planes (including passenger jets) have crashed with no survivors as a result of loss of cabin pressure. If that's what's happening, it's legitimately a very dangerous situation.

It makes it hard to recognise there's a problem to begin with, then makes it hard to remember the solution.

Oxygen masks should be dropping from the ceiling, but the oxygen generators only last about ten minutes. They aren't fed from cylinders like the pilots' masks. They're meant to keep the passengers breathing until the plane descends to a safe altitude.

All that assumes it's a pressure problem and they haven't just entered a demonic gaesa field making them forget, like how no-one in the city noticed the Kaiju badger.

[Welsh Halfwit]

I don't think it's a pressure problem. Lois and Marion don't seem affected at all.

Where's Draig?

[Amazee Dayzee]

Right now it only shows Tarot passing out but everybody else could be about to pass out also.

I'm sure that Draig is around on the plane somewhere.

[Cesco]

That's indeed a real problem, everyone forgetting what they're doing in the plane because of the altitude... Great Kitsune is maybe doing something stupid, but there weren't other choices... Eheh, Tarot is surely meaning Karishad, the best fox. Now I tell you all why you're there together: to be back as humans, don't you? Oh, poor Tarot is probably dizzy.

[trekkie]

Cute moment between Craig and Tarot.

[TheJestor]

Isn't a mask supposed to ...or is it a scotch and soda?

If cabin pressure drops then they drop, and they don't provide a constant flow of oxygen, instead it provides mix of chemicals that mimics fresh oxygen, while the masks carry about 20 minutes of oxygen, which is supposed to provide enough time for the pilot to lower altitude.. if they didn't drop, then it could be the oxygen is being replaced with another gas so as to keep pressure from dropping, but just slow enough to make it not noticeable till it's a bit too late.

[Frank]

That's how Tarot convinced them, but why does she want them along?

Isn't a mask supposed to ...or is it a scotch and soda?

Only in the case of "sudden" decompression. This one seems more gradual

[Amazee Dayzee]

Which leads credence to the theory that I have that the pilot might be doing this on purpose.

[NHWestoN]

Well, that was informative! Thanks, chums.

[VeryAngryDeer]

Isn't a mask supposed to ...or is it a scotch and soda?

If cabin pressure drops then they drop, and they don't provide a constant flow of oxygen, instead it provides mix of chemicals that mimics fresh oxygen, while the masks carry about 20 minutes of oxygen, which is supposed to provide enough time for the pilot to lower altitude.. if they didn't drop, then it could be the oxygen is being replaced with another gas so as to keep pressure from dropping, but just slow enough to make it not noticeable till it's a bit too late.

If they only mimicked oxygen, passengers would still pass out. Cabin masks are fed by oxygen generators, small canisters full of chemicals that produce oxygen when they mix (and get incredibly hot as a result).

Pilot masks are fed from oxygen cylinders. These have a minimum of one hour's worth of oxygen.

[Amazee Dayzee]

That would be because the pilot needed more oxygen than the passengers who only get 20 minutes worth of oxygen in their masks right?

[VeryAngryDeer]

That would be because the pilot needed more oxygen than the passengers who only get 20 minutes worth of oxygen in their masks right?

The passengers passing out is less dangerous than the pilots passing out. So the pilots get dedicated oxygen bottles that last longer, to ensure they have as much as needed to return the aircraft yo a safe altitude.

Even after the passengers pass out, it still takes a while before you get unrecoverable brain damage. Ensuring the pilots can breathe is worth it.

[Amazee Dayzee]

I understand that which is why I asked. Still I hope that something like that doesn't happen to any plane that I am on though...