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0 pointsTerr_2d ago0 comments

> suffocation (blood acidity induced by excess CO2)

Which, being the budget option, has a failure scenario: When low oxygen occurs without high CO2, people feel fine... until it's too late and they fall over, unconscious.

This can occur in enclosed spaces like caves where some other gas-mix has excluded the oxygen, or when someone hyperventilates before holding their breath.

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engineer_222d ago

> This can occur in enclosed spaces like caves where some other gas-mix has excluded the oxygen

Maybe this why some people innate fear of caves, primordial adaptation for suffocation avoidance behavior. I don't know, just fun to wonder about things like that

Terr_OP2d ago

I would wager a much-bigger feedback loop involves the other things that would like to live in those caves, and the odds you might get into conflict with their jaws/claws/stingers.

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