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In order to inhale a breath of air, you enlarge the chamber that holds your lungs (by drawing

your diaphragm down). As the container becomes larger, the atmosphere comes pouring into

the lungs, and the amount that pours in depends on the atmospheric pressure. If the pressure

of the atmosphere around you were 50% less, then the same volume of air would flow in, but

it would have only half as many oxygen molecules in it, and your body would have trouble

keeping your fires going. That's why you can feel faint and light-headed just being up on a

mountain for a while. A commercial airliner travels at an altitude that's about a mile higher

than the top of Mt. Everest. The atmospheric pressure at that altitude is so low that you couldn't

stay conscious for very long with the amount of air you'd get by just opening up your chest cavity

and waiting for it to pour in.

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