Closer detail on the can from Spaceballs:
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from what I understand (could be wrong) these were created for people who are suffering from oxygen deprivation in high altitude.
Absolutely and altitude sickness is no joke.
Source: I live in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and previously in Park City, Utah. The amount of tourists from lower altitudes that come to these places anf end up sick in bed sucking on oxygen or in the ER is too damn high.
I lived around sea level for most of my life.
Then, I went to Bozeman, MT for a night before going down to Gardiner, MT to work in Yellowstone.
I was a metal head, heavy drinker, hop in the mosh pit, feel no pain until two days later type at the time.
3 fucking beers tanked me. 3 raspberry heffeveizens at the Montana Aleworks had me stumbling back to my hotel bed hoping I heard my alarm so I could keep this YS job.
I literally drank with metal rock stars before this point in time. Alexi Leiho fucking poured straight liquor into my mouth off the edge of the tour bus (Children of Bodom front man, Lead guitar, died of complications of alcoholism in his 30s). Not endorsing the behavior (in fact, no, alcohol long term fucking sucks) but it happened. Dime and Vinny of Pantera? More than a few times. I wasn’t an alcoholic, but I could drink. Youth and stupidity, eh?
So 3 beers? Damn.
I also smoked at the time. Climbed Bunsen peak in Yellowstone with some coworkers. I lit a cigarette, and got about halfway through it before I had to put it out and stop to breathe.
Like, this was your first bong hit and it was a filled 6 foot bong that you took in coughing. You might puke from coughing so hard.
What I’m saying is, altitude is no joke. You can handle your shit? Not coming from sea level of basically nothing, to roughly 1300 feet.
Though, if you’re “training” for some sort of drinking contest or something, yeah, drink at a high altitude. I came back from YS, from being a “good drinker” to drinking hardened alcoholics under the table and feeling only the slightest bit tipsy. Altitude training, bitches.
Note: I can not speak for how altitude training would affect tolerance when it comes to health complications. I have no math, studies, or anecdotal evidence to suggest that alcohol poisoning (or death thereof) would be positively changed by high altitude training.
Appreciate the anecdote and the follow-up C.Y.A.
There are serious risks involved with altitude sickness, etc.
That being said, your lawyer-speak reminded me of SNL’s Happy Fun Ball.
They’re sold at the checkout at Dick’s sporting goods. Pretty sure some woo woo people are picking up on them.
We bought a few cans for an elderly relative that has a compromised respiratory system. They have a medical oxygen bottle, but if it runs out or their cannula stops working for some reason we wanted them to have another option besides asphyxiation. There are not many minutes of oxygen in one of those cans, but if you’ve got nothing even a few minutes is a gift.
They absolutely have real and useful applications. Just saw an ad show up a few times in short succession and felt compelled to make something of it. The commercial mostly just showed pro athletes rather than people needing them for various medical reasons.
Using it for athletic reasons is valid also. Shit’s just too expensive for me.
One owns the air, one pays to breathe
They were, but iirc, Boost sells “flavored” ones for non-emergency use. Or maybe it’s another company. Good Mythical Morning did an episode with those, I believe.
“Canned In Drudia”
Not anymore!
Edit: wait, they didn’t blow up Drudia. That was Alderaan.
Hey, we all make mistakes. Like that one Imperial general who came out of hyperspace too close to Hoth, alerting the rebels of their presence.
It’s time for space and time to go. Black holes suck because reality blows.
-John Goblikon
