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[mgafunnell]

Keeping the fan on in an unventilated room can cause a convection current (in hot weather) causing a body to dehydrate. this becomes a little more magnified if the person is elderly or had been drinking large amounts of alcohol.

[le-paul]

Thats funny, when I did my midwifery training, I was told/read recent research that said having a fan on will reduce cot death by over 70 percent. In terms of evidence, that's substantial enough to not be coincidence or speculation. Also, babies are pretty much weaker than old people in terms of physiology (to relate it to your guesstimate). Is your theory substantiated by any scientific research?
If not, shut up. Im tired of hearing about this crap and how drinking ModEdit makes you healthy and how kimchi is the healthiest food and how blah blah...


for further reading;

http://www.nhs.uk/news/2008/10October/Pages/Cotdeathriskandfanuse.aspx

[12ax7]

The only way a fan could kill you is if it catches on fire and burns your house down or if it falls from a shelf and lands on your head.

PS. The Chosun Ilbo recently published an article in which it explains why fan death is a myth.

[Old fat expat]

Perhaps your 'convection current' causes an uncontrolled updraft resulting in towering anvil headed clouds that cause a deadly lightening bolt to strike a hat rack that then falls on the poor, unsuspecting, but stupid victim.

[some waygug-in]

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080831235229AA1NLJv

A convection current is a flow of a fluid or air due to heating and cooling of the fluid or air. IE: Hot air rises. Cold air falls. If there is local heating of the air at some point, a convection current will be set up. An on shore breeze is one example. Here, the air that is heated by the land rises and moves out over the ocean where it is cooled and falls. the cool air moves inland as a breeze to complete the cycle.

The Gulf Stream in the Atlantic ocean is another example. Warm water from the Gulf of Mexico moves north along the eastern USA while cold water from the Polar region moves south along the coasts of Europe.


So this causes fan death? Whoodathunkit!

[Nester Noodlemon]

[drcrazy]

Fan death spelled backward is: " htaed anf".

[Swampfox10mm]

I can see a lack of oxygen due to an airtight room, after sleeping several hours.

[CentralCali]

[littlelisa]

[drcrazy]

I once had a fan that started to vibrate on its own, then it fell off a table and broke when it hit the floor. I think that was fan suicide!!!!!

[Swampfox10mm]

[Old fat expat]

I think you'll find it has more to do with moisture build-up and pathogens in the form of fungus and such due to stale/condensation filled air.

Also, how things are built in the good ol' US has nothing to do with building codes in Korea (feels so strange to use building codes and Korea in the same sentence).

Best to accept your fate on the ill-founded idea of oxygen deprivation (and the idea of fan death in any iteration).

[Swampfox10mm]

[RangerMcGreggor]

The two most likely theories I heard was that:

A.) it was a coverup for people committing suicide in their rooms or

B.) The government spread this rumor back in the good ol Dictatorship days to prevent people from using too much energy