Pure oxygen is actually toxic for humans, leading to hyperoxia. People who breath pure oxygen such as scuba divers need specific training.
Oxygen toxicity - Wikipedia - en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_toxicity
Please remember to spread the word about this :(
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Meron35@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Shayeta@feddit.org 9 months ago
hyper - meaning high, ox - meaning the animal Ox, -ia - meaning presence in blood.
High ox presence in blood.
saigot@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
I always think this when I see those annoying posts about diet coke dissolving screws.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Oxygen will burn you, that’s why we dilute it with nitrogen
roguetrick@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Life is a game of burning but trying to do it slowly.
CptOblivius@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Our lives are a balance between needing oxygen and preventing oxidation damage. We have several enzymes that constantly reduce radicals and chemicals caused by oxidation. So yes oxygen is continuously damaging us. And will eventually win.
KingCake_Baby@lemmy.world 9 months ago
70-80+ years exposure to this stuff is lethal
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 9 months ago
100% of people exposed to oxygen die.
Joeyowlhouse@lemmy.wtf 9 months ago
Wait until you read about Dihydrogen Monoxide. Everyone who has ever been exposed to it has died.
xav@programming.dev 9 months ago
There’s a whole website dedicated to raising awareness of its danger : www.dhmo.org
Joeyowlhouse@lemmy.wtf 9 months ago
The funny (and scary) thing is how many conspiracy theorists will not get the joke or realize it’s water.
icelimit@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
Wait till you hear about this greek curse called gravity.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
I mean, oxygen is the most aggressive oxidator, to the point we named the process after it.
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
F you.
spoiler
Brought to you by the highest oxidation gang.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 9 months ago
And if you meet flourine out on the wild, you will be F’ed.
pewpew@feddit.it 9 months ago
Imagine what it can do to software
mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 9 months ago
It can document it!
NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Those damn electrons!
Maeve@midwest.social 9 months ago
Antioxidants exist.
FuckFascism@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Great now I’m gonna stop breathing.
Bosht@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’ve currently been reducing my oxygen intake. My wife keeps telling me it’s impossible and my doc says I’ll supposedly die, but they’re just hating on my progress.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 9 months ago
This is a valid athletic technique. Usually achieved by training at altitude.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 9 months ago
Doesn’t it only work if you then return to a lower altitude? I wonder how long the benefits last for.
Now that I think about it, I don’t actually know how this even works. Well I know what I’m going to go read about next.
popjam@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Big O lackeys are everywhere. They want to keep you alive so they can sell you more O.
Zenith@lemm.ee 9 months ago
I got my oxygen intake down to single digits! My family wasn’t supportive however and got me a new pair of lungs, haters
chaotic_altruist@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Lol obviously. Thanks!
cRazi_man@europe.pub 9 months ago
Did you see what oxygen did to the Hindenburg? I’m not going to let that happen to me. Say no to big oxygen!
Dicska@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Have you ever seen asbestos catch fire? Me neither. So it’s your choice what you’d prefer breathing in.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Delicious fluorine for me please
Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Have you heard about the dangers of dihydrogenoxide?
collimated_thought@programming.dev 9 months ago
Statistically speaking, for humans, breathing oxygen does eventually have a 100% fatality rate.
voodooattack@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Look at what it did for the Linux kernel too.
Tap for spoiler
Ssshhh. It made it better
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Godric@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That’s why I chainsmoke constantly, I have to protect my lungs from oxidation.
BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 9 months ago
you train your legs and arms and back, but when i train my lungs im told smoking isnt allowed in the restaurant 🙄
camelbeard@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yeah restaurants can de pretty shitty, I have been told the same when I do my prostate cancer prevention exercises.
thefartographer@lemm.ee 9 months ago
This is why I feed blueberries to my chains
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It makes my blood run blue just thinking about it
veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Don’t forget, water is only one atom in it’s molecular composition away from rocket fuel
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Or an extremely deadly poison. Or an explosive, flammable gas.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 9 months ago
You can combat dangerous oxygen with black smoke from burning oil.
enkille@lemmy.world 9 months ago
if you haven’t heard of air, it’s an invisible blend of gases so addictive, we suffer fatal withdrawal symptoms within minutes of our supply being cut off
CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
andros_rex@lemmy.world 9 months ago
To sum up - because I taught this to a kid yesterday - for a period, life photosynthesized and oxygen was toxic to most living things. There were large growths of photosynthetic Cyanobacteria that pumped the air full of oxygen. Living things at the time (like, bacteria and microbes, nowhere near vertebrates) couldn’t handle all the O2 and died.
20cello@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Anyone else stopped breathing here?
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
Ever breathe oxygen, son?
Good, don’t start. Me, I’m hooked!-Muddy Mudskipper
zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Unrelated but the bottom navbar in that screenshot makes me long for the Alien Blue days of Reddit. I also just miss that iOS design (along with the OS X Mavericks design)
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Dude, I just had to use an old Mac with OS10.11 on it (I know not that old) to recover a laptop in target disk mode.
It still has the widgets!
I miss the widgets.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 9 months ago
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
The ‘Death Breathers’ thing is a primary plot point/story device of the ludicrous, over the top, MARS ATTACKS! from 1996.
Just any case anyone hasn't seen it and wants to avoid spoilers, don't open this
Basically, it barely makes any actual sense, and… thats part of the point, to be a parody of how stupid 50s schlock alien movies were… The Martians only breathe Nitrogen, and seem to asphyxiate if their helmets and pressure suits are removed or comprimised. This makes no fucking sense whatsoever for multiple reasons: Nitrogen is much, much less chemically reactive than Oxygen, and it seems quite unlikely that any kind of Nitrogen based metabolism could evolve basically anywhere, in any organic being, because of this… Earth’s atmosphere is like… ~70% Nitrogen. Do… they… need literally 100% Nitrogen? It… doesn’t seem like the oxygen in the atmosphere is like… causing them to internally combust/melt the way say mustard gas, chlorine gas, makes a human melt from the inside out, by nature of being way way way more chemically reactive than oxygen. What they do is act like … they’re asphyxiating, they gasp for air, not cough and vomit, eyes watering and burning/melting the way mustard gas fucks up people. Also, at one point, a ludicrouslt disguised as a human, martian… is able to go undercover, with no protective pressure suit… because they have… chewing gum, that… releases nitrogen. Again, if oxygen had a similar effect on them as chlorine gas has on us… this disguised martian should… still be basically burning/melting from being exposed to all the oxygen, and thats overlooking the ludicrousness of… nitrogen releasing chewing gum
state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
That’s the exact theme of many stories on r/HFY
Efflixi@lemmy.world 9 months ago
There are quite a few sci-fi stories and short stories built on a similar concept. One of my favorites is an alien ship lands on a random farm in the US and (leaving a lot of details out, read the book!) it comes to light that the aliens normally live at insanely hot temperatures like 900F (480C) and consider Earth and “Ice World” (that’s also the name of the book). Anyway, one of the catches in the book is that farmer figures out the alien wants to trade (again skipping a lot of details) but all he has on him that he can give up is a cigarette (the farmer doesn’t know it’s super hot inside the ship). He does the trade and we later find out that most of the galaxy is INSANELY vulnerable to being 100% completely utterly addicted to nicotine. When the alien took in the cigarette it instantly vaporized and sent the nicotine into the air and they breathed it and became instantly addicted worse than any opiod addiction IRL.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
You think that’s bad, wait until you hear about dihydrogen monoxide!
son_named_bort@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Did you know that dihydrogen monoxide kills more people than any other liquid? And yet, the government does nothing to ban it. This deadly liquid could be anywhere, even in your home!
FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 9 months ago
Took me some time
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 9 months ago
More information about this dangerous chemical: dhmo.org/facts.html
mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
Wel, every single human who breathes Oxygen dies eventually. Just saying.
Dasus@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s a decent hypothesis, but you’ll never gather enough data to convince the naysayers.
“The results just aren’t in yet, look at all the people alive”
mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
fair. I guess only history remains to prove me right.
pocker_machine@lemmy.world 9 months ago
So to not die, we just need to stop breathing !