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I won't write a blog post to respond to your comment on my post or else I'll descend into recursive madness.

Suffice to say, I think you've hit *at least* a 1st level dissociation with your comment (or 3rd if we include 50SoG - even if the husband kept his clothes on for the fanfuc research).

Final fun fact: I last worked for a company which made MRI scanners (amongst many other things).' Quenching' is a good word to lookup in relation to the potential for their (mismanaged) operation Also: how helium balloons might indirectly cause patients to have poorer outcomes in the future.

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Ah - no! I've got it! A scene in which our Katrina is confronted by bad guys in the fMRI chamber and she does the quenching thing against them!

Yes! I knew there was something I was missing there! Take that, Bond. you cad.

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'fanfuc research' - that made me guffaw. And then you follow that up with another related alliteration! Heaven knows what you and me would be like in the pub after a dozen drinks!

I looked up quenching, as I wasn't envisaging subjecting our Katrina to anything like that. Especially with a description like this: "Although gaseous helium is lighter than air and will float to the top of the room, large quantities can completely displace oxygen from the entire room and if inhaled may cause loss of consciousness within 10 seconds with the possibility of asphyxia and death. Patients and staff must therefore be evacuated immediately from the scanner room if a quench occurs."

Now, if we combine this with one of my all time favourite fMRI experiment papers: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5675825/ then the possibilities for bawdy farce are almost limitless.

You should definitely give some of that article a read, as it's utterly fascinating (see especially figure 5, and the 'head immobilisation' section).

Anyhow, there is so definitely a story in there somewhere.

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