Your body is essentially an oxidation reaction that it ponders its place in the universe.
A slowly burning fire that pays taxes.
Oxygen
Submitted 7 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Pohl@lemmy.world 7 months ago
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 7 months ago
A slowly burning fire that pays taxes.
That’s poetry. Nicely done.No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Atomic@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Yes. Oxygen does degrade our bodies. Unfortunately, we also need it to stay alive. Life be like that.
Daft_ish@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s reported many people who have died had varying amounts of oxygen in their bloodstream at the time of death.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Oh yeah, reactive oxygen species, right? But iirc those are only confined to certain parts of the cell
5765313496@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Just eat enough antioxidants to flush all of the oxygen out of your body!
PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Rust on the Myrtle Beach ferris wheel has also been shown to reduce fertility levels of crabs nearby, causing a dramatic drop in their population and California Bill 34 was passed to drastically limit how many can be caught, devastating the local fisheries!
For more information, Google “Rust ferris crab rule 34”
AceCephalon@pawb.social 7 months ago
Wait a minute, something feels off…
thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 7 months ago
I googled this and that’s enough internet for today.
pumpkinseedoil@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Where does it lead? I’m not brave enough
baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 7 months ago
Jeez, imagine coding in rust, that can’t be good for you.
lseif@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
its apparently safe
uis@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Prepare buckets of water for melted processors
baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 7 months ago
Yeah, that is the “government” tells you!
asg101@hexbear.net 7 months ago
If you think that is bad, just wait til you learn about Dihydrogen Monoxide. That shit kills.
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
Stop downplaying it, call it by it’s most descriptive name:
Hydric acidAquilae@hexbear.net 7 months ago
100% of the people who drink dihydrogen monoxide eventually end up dying. Shit’s dangerous
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
there are three constants in life.
taxes, rule 34, And oxidation.
PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
the fact that I made a rule 34 joke about this without even seeing this comment is so great
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
great minds think alike, or something.
RustyNova@lemmy.world 7 months ago
HOW DARE YOU BAD MOUTH RUST LIKE THAT! Rust is natural, and isn’t anything bad. Let your body rust, and accept it’s warm embrace.
!/s!<
Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Have you tried doing it in Rust?
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
nah, i do tea
charlytune@mander.xyz 7 months ago
In rust we trust!
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I bet you sheeple also drink dihydrogen monoxide every day!
OpenStars@discuss.online 7 months ago
Isn’t that there one of them… “forever chemicals”? 😂
DigitalNirvana@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Never trust atoms, they make up everything.
OpenStars@discuss.online 7 months ago
I’ve also heard that electrons in them cannot be relied upon - especially to be anywhere that they say they will (instead, they zip off to the other side of the whole galaxy/universe, then before you can tell anyone they’re gone, they are back again!) :-P.
leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 7 months ago
Seriously, though, when those blue-green fuckers came up with oxygenic photosynthesis and started shitting oxygen all over the place they killed practically everything else on the planet, the bastards. Paleontologists call it the Oxygen Catastrophe or Oxygen Holocaust.
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 7 months ago
We joke but oxygen is a caustic poison and when it came on the scene, evolution practically had to start over
brown567@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Be sure to drink plenty of Coke to dissolve the rust your body builds up from breathing!
Cethin@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Not just drink, inhale.
helpme@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Is Pepsi okay?
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
is local store cola okay?
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Check the label. Anything with sulfuric and phosphoric acid is good for rust removal. The reason why it’s in cola is simply because without it, it would be way too sweet from all the sugar.
DestroyMegacorps@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Jeez man this oxygen addiction is too great cant withstand 30 seconds without oxygen
Draconic_NEO@mander.xyz 7 months ago
I can do at least 45 seconds up to a full minute.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 months ago
If oxidation didn’t happen, you’d suffocate. 😌
Aux@lemmy.world 7 months ago
No you!
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
This isn’t wrong. Don’t put oxygen on a pedastal, it’s toxic stuff.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I mean, it wouldn’t stay on the pedestal anyway. It would just float away.
Draconic_NEO@mander.xyz 7 months ago
It won’t float away if you freeze it first, of course it will sublimate away but not all at once.
marcos@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That’s just lack of creativity from your part.
The OP didn’t say the composition of the pedestal, if it has cavities, its temperature…
Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Wait until OP learns about dihydrogen-monoxide.
the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I read some comment (so take it with a grain of salt) where someone who knew a bit of chemistry said, in a way we actually are damaged by the oxygen we breathe. Details foggy but they mentioned free radicals and our burning up on a cellular level, albiet over the course of our lifetimes
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah it’s why we have antioxidants. The idea is oxygen is constantly stealing electrons from nearby molecules and antioxidants help replace those electrons.
Life is just a constant form of slow death. Up until your body simply can’t replace the old cells fast enough anymore.
the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Oh good i remembered it roughly right. If you happen to have a good laymans source laying around already i could use a refresher. I mustve used the wrong search terms cuz i keep getting bunk ass health scam sites
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
It’s true. The medical field over the last few decades has curbed when to give patients high flow concentrated oxygen for this reason.
uis@lemm.ee 7 months ago
That’s why breathing pure oxygen is bad idea
LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 7 months ago
So I know it’s a joke, but isn’t this why dietary antioxidants are good for you, is because they literally help inhibit the oxidation of your body?
zagaberoo@beehaw.org 7 months ago
Oxygen ravages electrons all day at the end of the electron transport chain and nobody bats an eye, but you steal one pair off some DNA and everybody loses their minds!
lauha@lemmy.one 7 months ago
Also pure oxygen is bad long term
MNByChoice@midwest.social 7 months ago
Just iron try to protect life from Cyanobacteria. The war is over, but it fights on.
WhereGrapesMayRule@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Holding my breath from now on.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Sodium is a dangerous explosive, choride is a poisonous gas, yet we put the mixture of two into our food.
Raise awareness of sodium-cloride!
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 7 months ago
Oxygen is one of the most reactive gases. It can burn iron at 100°C.
PrimeMinisterKeyes@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It can burn diamond at 720 °C, what do you think it’ll do to soft tissue over the course of an entire lifetime. Things helping aerobic life survive are
a) partially consisting of partially oxidized polymers in the form of carbohydrates (remember, the only thing that cannot burn is what has already been burned);
b) oxygen’s peculiar, natural triplet state which greatly slows down its kinetics compared e.g. to its horrible relative, ozone.
DSTGU@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
This but unitronically
clot27@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I thought this will somehow relate to rust programming language
Dragster39@feddit.de 7 months ago
What oxygen does to your lungs is what Rust does to your brain
cobra89@beehaw.org 7 months ago
I mean it’s not wrong, there’s a reason antioxidants are a thing.
pb42184@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Makes me think of the DHMO awareness campaign
prex@aussie.zone 7 months ago
refalo@programming.dev 7 months ago
Linking to this got me permanently banned from the entire Libera IRC network, apparently because a random snowflake mod also happened to be named Walter and decided it was a personal attack.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
!achievers@lebowski.social
dovahking@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Every creature that had ever breathed oxygen, dies. That’s a 100% mortality rate.
whereBeWaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Every creature that hadn’t breathed oxygen also dies. Can’t live with it can’t live without it.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
A necessary evil
BorgDrone@lemmy.one 7 months ago
Turritopsis dohrnii would like to have a chat.
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Anaerobes have entered the chat
TwentySeven@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I breathe oxygen, I’ve never died
feedmecontent@lemmy.world 7 months ago
All current living creatures are basically a rounding error in that calculation