When the workers stepped into the compartment, they would not have smelled anything peculiar or have had any other warning that they were entering a deadly area. All five men were reported to have passed out almost immediately, and soon afterward they were evacuated from the compartment. Dies Aboard Helicopter
John Bjornstad, a 50-year-old senior chemical technician, died aboard a helicopter that was carrying him to a hospital in nearby Titusville. The medical authorities explained that the nitrogen itself was not poisonous – it makes up nearly 80 percent of ordinary air – but such an exposure deprives a person of all oxygen. He dies of what is known as hypoxia, which is lack of oxygen.
Seems like a pretty painless way to go to me. Why not just a gas chamber and run nitrogen through it until brain death?
I still await evidence that he’s smart at all, other than all of the bien pensant telling me he is. If he’s all that smart, he hides it well. As I noted on Twitter earlier:
This administration has more corruption than Nixon's, with none of the competence.
Yes, ladies, we really do think that some of you wear too much.
I’ve always assumed that women are really dressing and making up for other women, not men. But it doesn’t help that the fashion industry is so dominated by men who are attracted to men (or boys), not women.
Obama won’t be impeached and removed (at least not before the election), for the reasons Glenn writes. But in a sane world, he would be. Of course, in a sane world, he’d have never been president.
[Update a few minutes later]
Here’s the story. That’s being ignored because of an octogenarian racist team owner in the NBA.