“As an altitude researcher, I know the air turbulence is getting worse every year.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Your attitude determines your altitude and your altitude your accolades, access and success.” — Ikechukwu Joseph Copy Share Image
“It's your ATTITUDE not your APTITUDE that ultimately determines your ALTITUDE!” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Plastic bottles of Gatorade were given free to very high altitude workers on Mauna Kea and they were advised to drink it… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“I consider my low exposure to industrial carbon dioxide in professional astronomy to be a good thing, as opposed to the optics… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Altidiot: Definition – A sea level adapted human that works in a biologically toxic high altitude job.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“I expect to be awarded the Nobel prize for researching what professional astronomers did not want researched.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Not descending to sea level after developing high altitude sickness is a mistake that may come to haunt you a decade later.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“With the benefit of hindsight, the biggest mistake that I made in life was working in the toxic field of high altitude… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“The only difference between a very high altitude worker and a radiation worker is that there is a government compensation program in… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Though my stabilization chute opens at 96,000 feet, I accelerate for 6,000 feet more before hitting a peak of 614 miles an… — Joseph Kittinger Copy Share Image
“The field of astronomy is biologically toxic in many areas and may result in heavy metals poisoning, industrial gas injuries, chemical poisoning,… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“In high altitude astronomical facilities we routinely discharged large amounts of nitrogen gas into closed spaces. We were never informed by the… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Research suggests that sea level adapted humans that work at the very high altitude 13,796 feet summit of Mauna Kea may eventually… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“When I worked in astronomy, I routinely observed young college and university students working with liquid nitrogen and breathing nitrogen gas as… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Industrial liquid gas containers were left open and venting gas into the indoor environment in high altitude astronomy. On reflection, I realized… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
It was wrong if there was a man suffering altitude problems and was huddled under a rock, just to lift your hat,… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
“The Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) are holding back important biological research into High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD) by not publicly documenting the… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Aggressive airplane passengers probably have a bad case of Altitude Sickness. Many people are hypoxic at airplane cruising altitude. They would be… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Progressing mental and physical illnesses were a feature of my Summit Brain.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
With the altitude in the Rocky Mountains, the ball jumps off your foot. — Justin Tucker Copy Share Image
“Taking Amberen was how I discovered the treatment for Altitude Hypersensitivity.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“I knew I was disabled when everyday home activities became overwhelming!” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Be aware that the difference between heaven and earth is not so much altitude but attitude. — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
“Sleep disorders are a known occupational hazard to astronomers and their support staff.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“A sea level adapted armed police officer can legally refuse to venture above 10,000 feet in altitude on the grounds of health… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“I spent 2021 through to 2023 on Hawaii Island defining the new classification of altitude sickness and developing the supplements that treat it.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“It is not surprising that two of the most notorious modern mass murderers in the USA and Europe were both high altitude… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“I made the mistake of working at the world's largest telescopes and now show classic health degradation that is associated with that… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
The quality of food is in inverse proportion to a dining room's altitude, especially atop bank and hotel buildings (airplanes are an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I was always mystified why I never saw any cases of HAPE and HACE in very high altitude workers.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“One day we were taken in groups to experience the altitude chamber, a sealed room in which the air pressure is slowly… — Scott Kelly Copy Share Image
“I am not going to apologize for scientific discovery that prevents the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
