Sept. 03, 1990
As the television camera closes in on his solemn face, film director Oliver Stone instructs viewers to hold their breath. “Every instinct will start to shout and scream for air,” says Stone, comparing the feeling to the “choking of the planet” from global-warming gases. “O.K., breathe,” he commands seconds later. “Remember, you just ran out of air. And we’re running out of time.”
Disrupting the Borg is expensive and time consuming!
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Oliver Stone should just keep quiet and make movies. I liked “World Trade Center” a lot. Every time he gives his stupid political opinions I wonder how he was smart enough to make that move. What an abject idiot!
Or he would give up using lots of cocaine. This impacts the way one’s brain performs.
Between 1900 and 1990, the citrus industry moved from the Jacksonville area to south of Orlando. Totally consistent with a warming planet (sarc).
Wrong thread! /not sarc
Stone missed his calling. He should have been a science fiction writer.
People say stupid things out of ignorance – as any first year physiology student can tell you the breathing response in humans is designed to react primarily to removing the waste product of metabolism – CO2 – from the body and has little to do with oxygen.
Our body happily fades into unconsciousness if breathing air with insufficient oxygen provided it can expel CO2 freely. I have seen this performed in experiments in Physiology class at Uni – these days such experiment would be frowned upon – a person breathes their recycled air after it is passed through water with limestone filters to remove CO2. As the O2 levels decrease the subject begins to become disoriented and drowsy but shows no sign of panic or distress.
In an atmosphere rich in CO2 where the diffusion effect of the lungs fails the subject immediately rips the mask off.
Fortunately this effect doesn’t kick in until >>> 8000 ppm CO2 so atmospheric CO2 “pollution” is not likely to ever be a problem for breathing.
Of course holding your breath is depriving your body of a primal desire – get rid of CO2 – your body has sufficient oxygen in the blood to last for far longer than anyone can hold their breath – up to three times longer before O2 deprivation sets in.