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  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator

    Amusing.
    I await the avalanche of compliments or diatribe....

  • howhow Veteran Veteran
    edited March 2015

    A friend of mine ran the local university hyperbolic chamber for many years. It was used for divers having the bends and some specialized healing situations.
    It is **not **new!
    Their chamber could hold a number of people but had to be used very carefully for a number of medical reasons...One of which is that higher levels of oxygen can actually be corrosive on the body.

  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
    edited March 2015

    @how, er....

    No, he ran the HyperbARIC chamber.

    "Hyperbole' (pronounced Hi-per-bolly) is a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect. And the linked article is absolutely chock-a-block with them...

  • howhow Veteran Veteran
    edited March 2015

    @federica.
    Thanks for the save again

    But didn't you think that "hyperbolic" better described their ad?

    Not that this means I can actually spell worth a sh-t.

  • Oops! I just now notice my misspelling in the thread title. Aw well.

  • HamsakaHamsaka goosewhisperer Polishing the 'just so' Veteran

    That had to have been the most hilarious, riotous, and thigh-slappingest excuse for a scientific time and money wasting piece of nothing whatsoever I have known the leg-pulling Onion to have ever published in their illustrious history of parody I've ever seen.

  • Well done @Hamsaka

    Hamsaka
  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator

    @thegoldeneternity said:
    Oops! I just now notice my misspelling in the thread title. Aw well.

    Done.
    That's my purpose in life. To put the glaring mistakes, faux-pas and disastrous errors of others, right.

    (That was a joke. But I'm here to help. :)<3 )

    thegoldeneternity
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