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Air in a pillow?
Dec. 13th, 2007 10:49 amJust an odd point. The TV show was about life in Tibet, and they were showing a young woman at a bus stop. And this young woman has made a business selling . . . hum, I suppose they would be called air pillows. She takes a plastic bag and blows it up. (Note: I was getting ready for the day, and did not see the plastic bags, but Mitsuko said they were just ordinary bags.) She sells these to the passengers, and makes about 5 gen a day (maybe 50 cents?).
But then they mentioned the main selling point, and my baflement rose.
See, according to the show, the busses go way up high, where it is hard to breathe. And the sales point for these air pillows is that when you have trouble breathing, you open it and squeeze some of the air into your nose, and then you can breathe easier.
It seems unlikely to me, and yet, there is a certain logic to the notion.
Could a bag of air from "low" actually provide a useful assist at a higher altitude? Blown up with someone's lungs, note, not with a pump. And apparently a normal plastic bag? Or is this a placebo effect?
But then they mentioned the main selling point, and my baflement rose.
See, according to the show, the busses go way up high, where it is hard to breathe. And the sales point for these air pillows is that when you have trouble breathing, you open it and squeeze some of the air into your nose, and then you can breathe easier.
It seems unlikely to me, and yet, there is a certain logic to the notion.
Could a bag of air from "low" actually provide a useful assist at a higher altitude? Blown up with someone's lungs, note, not with a pump. And apparently a normal plastic bag? Or is this a placebo effect?
