Altitude Quote by Steven Magee

“Industrial liquid gas containers were left open and venting gas into the indoor environment in high altitude astronomy. On reflection, I realized that I…

— Steven Magee

“It was common to drink from plastic bottles and cans in high altitude astronomy.”

— Steven Magee

“High altitude astronomy is a strange world of oxygen starvation, sleep deprivation and radiation sickness.”

— Steven Magee

“During my time in high altitude astronomy, I routinely witnessed workers breathing medical oxygen, industrial carbon dioxide, nitrogen and helium gas as part of…

— Steven Magee

“In high altitude astronomical facilities we routinely discharged large amounts of nitrogen gas into closed spaces. We were never informed by the astronomy management…

— Steven Magee

“When I worked in astronomy, I routinely observed young college and university students working with liquid nitrogen and breathing nitrogen gas as they discharged…

— Steven Magee

“As I watched my mental and physical health rapidly decline during a decade of working in high altitude professional astronomy, I became suspicious about…

— Steven Magee

“With the benefit of hindsight, the biggest mistake that I made in life was working in the toxic field of high altitude astronomy.”

— Steven Magee

“The illnesses in high altitude professional astronomy are generally a mixture of long term altitude sickness and workplace toxicity.”

— Steven Magee

“When I worked in professional high and very high altitude astronomy, I was completely clueless to what the long term biological hazards of the…

— Steven Magee

“My memories of my time in high altitude astronomy indicate that there were no oxygen concentration monitors or alarms in the areas that liquid…

— Steven Magee

“High altitude professional astronomy is a hypoxic job.”

— Steven Magee