Re: cheap lunar gear & base (spin-off of superhero flight)

On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:31:23 GMT, Bryan Derksen
<bryan.derksen@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>Leonard Erickson wrote:
>> Also, furni****ngs and our bodies release an *amazing* number of
>> volatiles into the air.
>
>Heh. Perhaps "airing out" your furni****ngs in a vacuum for a while will 
>help get rid of the worst of it.
>
>> Alas, pulse oximeters aren't cheap. But one would be handy to have.
>
>http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=oximeter&category0=

>has a lot of them available in the $100 range. There were some carbon 
>dioxide monitors available in the $200 range when I checked, too.

Rats. When I had the money and looked, they were $300.  Wasn't cheap
enough to justify getting just then, even though I could use one. If
I'd seen one at that price, I['d have grabbed it.

>A lot of the monitoring gear that would be nice to have is the same sort 
>of thing that would be used in mines, perhaps that would be a good angle 
>to follow when looking for this sort of thing. In a pinch, theft remains 
>an option here too.