Why Flying Makes You Feel Sick

When you fly in an airplane, do you feel terrible? Julian did some digging to figure out why this happens!

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This is why flying on a plane makes you feel terrible
http://www.vox.com/2014/10/28/7079083...
"Do you feel inexplicably crappy - tired, dehydrated, and headachy - every time you fly?"

Atmospheric pressure
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphe...
"Atmospheric pressure is the force per unit area exerted on a surface by the weight of air above that surface in the atmosphere of Earth (or that of another planet)."

How Things Work: Cabin Pressure
http://www.airspacemag.com/flight-tod...
"WE HUMANS NEED AIR TO LIVE, so we do best around sea level. Airplanes are at their best up high, where the air is thin and smooth."

Cabin altitude
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabin_pr...
"The pressure inside the cabin is technically referred to as the equivalent effective cabin altitude or more commonly as the cabin altitude."

'Modern Family' Editor Live-Tweets Plane Passenger's Drunken Meltdown
http://mashable.com/2014/09/29/modern...
"As an Emmy-winning editor of Modern Family, Ryan Case has a professionally tuned sense of comic timing - and the Twitter sass to match - but it took a cosmic coincidence to put Case in a seat behind a severely drunken passenger so lacking in self-awareness that if she were a character on TV, we'd laugh the writers out of the room."

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