It would be like risking the vinous equivalent of the bends, the decompression sickness of deep-sea divers who ascend too quickly from the bottom of the ocean.

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Military planes that chased the Learjet said its windows appeared frosted over, an indication of a decompression.

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This would have involved a chain of Stirling units that use a cycle of compression and decompression in a fluid to get to low temperatures.

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PS4 provides dedicated, "always on" video compression and decompression systems that enables seamless uploading of gameplay.

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Their bodies are acclimated to the high pressures (hundreds of atmospheres), and the decompression is usually fatal.

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Its experts meet four times per year to discuss, propose and issue international standards for compression, decompression, processing, and coded representation of moving pictures and audio.

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"Social play is so important to PlayStation 4 that we've added in hardware to support it, in the form of dedicated, always-on video compression and decompression systems, " he said.

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MP3, owners of the player could download, for a fee, a new decompression algorithm for their player from the maker's website.

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