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Article: SCIENTISTS COP AN ALTITUDE CHANCE TO STUDY EFFECTS ON HUMANS TAKES BREATH AWAY AT NEW CU CENTER.(City Desk/Local)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- December 17, 2002
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Byline: Bill Scanlon
ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
Coloradans breathe in great buckets of air - 2 1/2 gallons a minute.
Every two years, they inhale the equivalent of a Goodyear blimp more air than their flatland cousins.
If they didn't, they'd fall sick, move like slugs and give birth to 4-pound babies. Many would die.
At a mile high along the Front Range, at 10,000 feet in ski country, at 14,000 feet on top of the state's 54 highest peaks, there's a lot less air pressure and fewer oxygen molecules.
This means that if Coloradans hadn't learned to breathe so efficiently, many would be in a perpetual state of dizziness, nausea ...