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Originally Posted by Karnuvap View Post
The animals, that he experimented on, stayed within the chamber so they would have been breathing shrunk air and would have survived. However the guy ventured outside of the chamber where the air would be normal density. This density would be too sparse to support the engine of the ATV and the lungs of our poor experimenter.

Interestingly, many forms of execution are very poor methods. Electrocution or hanging or even lethal injection can all go wrong and cause severe pain for the victim as they die. A more certain method would be to simply suffocate them by reducing the oxygen in the air they breathe - guaranteed death and painless too. But this isn't used as a method because it induces a sort of pleasurable euphoria (before you die) and the powers that be don't like the idea of people going out 'on a high'.

Karnuvap.

Exactly correct! it always used to amaze me in Science fiction that this was ignored. The air would have to be miniaturized as well!


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