Had to turn on the AC.
Had to turn on the AC. Not because of temperature, something is blooming and trying to kill me. Cue every scifi story about spores or pollen, ever.
Protagonists: We were raised in space and landed on a planet and it's trying to kill us.
Computer: whizz beep pop (I think this is mandatory to indicate the tremendous effort the bees and mice are making) ... Try an antihistamine.
Protagonists: What?
Computer: A synthesized compound from 20th century Earth that is recorded as countering the inefficiencies in the Human immune system.
whizz beep pop bing!
drawer/slot opens with little white pill and instructions to swallow, which may be assisted by ingesting liquid simultaneously.
Protagonists happily go off to destroy yet another culture/ecosystem.
Or tiny little, flying, fire-breathing lizards. Whatever works.
Protagonists: We were raised in space and landed on a planet and it's trying to kill us.
Computer: whizz beep pop (I think this is mandatory to indicate the tremendous effort the bees and mice are making) ... Try an antihistamine.
Protagonists: What?
Computer: A synthesized compound from 20th century Earth that is recorded as countering the inefficiencies in the Human immune system.
whizz beep pop bing!
drawer/slot opens with little white pill and instructions to swallow, which may be assisted by ingesting liquid simultaneously.
Protagonists happily go off to destroy yet another culture/ecosystem.
Or tiny little, flying, fire-breathing lizards. Whatever works.
AC helps against pollen?
ReplyDeleteMagnus Itland if the AC is running, the windows aren't open letting in the pollen. Also at least some of what already came in ends up trapped in the filter.
ReplyDeleteI wondered if it was the filter or whether lower temperature rendered them less capable of activating the immune system somehow. Didn't think of the window. I know in Norway we use to open windows to make it cooler inside, but I thought in the contiguous states - which are quite a bit further south - it would just make the house warmer.
ReplyDeleteIn our house - which is at a latitude which would put it in seriously southern Europe indeed (Spain, maybe? I seem to recall being within a couple of degrees of Z's hometown in Turkey, so there's that) if it slid a hell of a long way sideways - the air conditioner is running when the temperature is above ... I'm going to say about 20C outside, though that's actually a little warm. The windows come open when it drops another couple of degrees, but coexist with a running air conditioner until it drops to maybe 15C outside, because so much heat gets produced inside the house that it has to be much cooler than room temp before simple open windows will do the job on their own.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, our windows are open right now, because we are having a freakishly cool August and also because I am lazy and didn't shut them yet even though it's got up to about 24C outside this afternoon. It'll cool off again out there soon.
Filter. All AC units have some kind of filter, and you can get quite high end ones on some, For example, the central air in our house has some kind of fancy, high end, HEPA or fancier filter.
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