Sunday, March 21, 2010

blood boiling

so, i was reading about vapor pressure, and boiling points falling with altitude... and i wondered if your blood spontaneously boils when you hit 16,000m and the boiling point of water drops to about 37 degrees C.

but apparently, it doesn't.
good old skin -- what would we do without it.

http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/970603.html

ok. procrastination over.
back to work.