Lateral Puzzles

Pre-College Topics High School Life
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<p>being at high altitudes can paralyze people who get extreme altitude sickness. True, but Lee did not suffer altitude sickness.</p>

<p>Was it very cold? Define “very cold”.
Was it very hot? No.
Was he wearing the gas mask before skydiving? Yes.
Was he wearing the gas mask as he jumped out of the plane? No.
Was he wearing the gas mask when he died? No.
Was this a training exercise? Yes.
Was this a HALO jump? Yes.</p>

<p>was this at wartime? No.
Was the gas sarin, tabun, or soman? None of these.</p>

<p>Y’all are very close. You just need to determine how the single breath could incapacitate Lee.</p>

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<p>Was the gas he inhaled detrimental to his bodily functions in any way?</p>

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<p>Was it the contents of the breath that incapacitated him?
Was the fact that it was a training exercise have anything to do with his death?
Was the fact that it was a HALO jump have anything to do with his death?
Does the gas mask have anything to do with his death?
Did he take the breath in question before jumping out of the plane?
Did he take the breath in question after jumping out of the plane?
Did anyone know the cause of his incapacitation from the breath in question?
Was anyone aware of the risk of his incapacitation from the breath in question?</p>

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<p>If he’s doing a HALO jump, he had to flush his bloodstream of Nitrogen. During this jump he took one breath of regular air, bringing nitrogen back in, which can cause paralysis. He failed on jump protocol.</p>

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<p>He suffered hypoxia</p>

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<p>The gas expanded while inside of him?</p>

<p>did he explode?</p>

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<p>One of these things?</p>

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<p>If he’s doing a HALO jump, he had to flush his bloodstream of Nitrogen. During this jump he took one breath of regular air, bringing nitrogen back in, which can cause paralysis. He failed on jump protocol. Exactly so. Good job!</p>

<p>mathsciencedude: “Just one breath of regular air will bring the jumper’s blood nitrogen levels close to normal”. This is the statement upon which the puzzle is based, assuming it isn’t a myth.</p>

<p>EDIT: I researched it, and it isn’t a myth. You really do risk death if you breath a single breath of normal air.</p>

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<p>We need another one.</p>

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<p>Yo MosbyMarion, I was the first one to mention the bends…which he got. =D</p>

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<p>Yes, extra credit goes to Communist101 for finding the illness by which ordinary air is lethal, mathsciencedude for establishing the context, and MIT for the final leap.</p>

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<p>Even if my solution came before the wiki page mathsciencdude posted.</p>

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<p>^Mosby means that I figured out he was skydiving and doing a HALO.</p>

<p>I’ve got one, but I might not have time to answer all the questions. I might need to pm someone to keep up the answers eventually.</p>

<p>A dead man has a bottle cap on his finger. How and why did he die?</p>

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<p>I demand another puzzle</p>

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<p>Is the bottle for that cap in the general vicinity?</p>

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<p>Is the bottle for that cap in the general vicinity? Doesn’t matter, but probably no.</p>

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<p>How is the cap situated on his finger?</p>

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<p>Does the bottle cap have a direct role in his death?</p>

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<p>How is the cap situated on his finger? Yes or no.
Does the bottle cap have a direct role in his death? No, in the sense it didn’t cause him to die.</p>

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<p>Was there anything unique about the bottle cap? Was it any different than “common” bottle caps?</p>