Trey,

Your observation that "the dumber something is, the better it is
believed", is the corollary to Rose's Rule.

-John

On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, George Irvine wrote:

> "Isobaric counterdiffusion" is what happens when Santa Clause sucks the
> Easter Bunny's dick - it's BULLSHIT.
>
> Bennett and Eliot I think have  a mention of this crap where some Navy
> morons had a pig surrounded in argon and breathing helium, and "somehow" the
> pig got skin bent. No shit.
>
> Scott, I am surrounded in argon and breathing helium and everything else in
> some of the most provocative decompressions in history, and you have seen me
> in person - did I look like I had ever been injured?
>
> The "reasoning" for this Peter Panism is supposedly that the two vastly
> different gas mediums will provoke bubbling across the interface, which is
> pure bullshit. The sum of the inert gases is the opposite of the oxygen
> window, and those factors govern most deco on the one side, and the pressure
> differentials on the other. There is little or nothing else to it, other
> than the particular physiology involved, and as you know from seeing me, I
> would not make a very convincing pig, and a pig does not make a very
> convincing diver. B and E needs to remove this fairy tale from that book.
>
> one real interesting thing is this : the dumber something is, the better it
> is believed
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott" <scottk@nw*.co*>
> To: "Techlist" <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
> Cc: "Trey" <trey@ne*.co*>
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 12:38 PM
> Subject: Counter diffusion
>
>
> > George,
> >
> > Can you put the issues of "counter diffusion" into language a Jarhead can
> > understand?
> >
> > I was accosted this past week by a "Master Diver" who warned us that "If
> you
> > have to take a chamber ride after breathing that shit (helium) it will
> kill
> > you."
> >
> > I was so stunned by his position and attitude that I just nodded and
> > listened.
> >
> > Plus, I have no idea what counter diffusion is, or if or why it is an
> issue
> > to SCUBA divers.
> >
> > Scott
> >
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