Your body is essentially an oxidation reaction that it ponders its place in the universe.
A slowly burning fire that pays taxes.
Oxygen
Submitted 11 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Pohl@lemmy.world 11 months ago
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 11 months ago
A slowly burning fire that pays taxes.
That’s poetry. Nicely done.No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Atomic@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Yes. Oxygen does degrade our bodies. Unfortunately, we also need it to stay alive. Life be like that.
Daft_ish@lemmy.world 11 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 11 months ago
Oh yeah, reactive oxygen species, right? But iirc those are only confined to certain parts of the cell
5765313496@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Just eat enough antioxidants to flush all of the oxygen out of your body!
PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 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 11 months ago
Wait a minute, something feels off…
thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 11 months ago
I googled this and that’s enough internet for today.
pumpkinseedoil@mander.xyz 6 months ago
Where does it lead? I’m not brave enough
baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 11 months ago
Jeez, imagine coding in rust, that can’t be good for you.
lseif@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
its apparently safe
uis@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Prepare buckets of water for melted processors
baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 11 months ago
Yeah, that is the “government” tells you!
asg101@hexbear.net 11 months ago
If you think that is bad, just wait til you learn about Dihydrogen Monoxide. That shit kills.
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Stop downplaying it, call it by it’s most descriptive name:
Hydric acidAquilae@hexbear.net 11 months ago
100% of the people who drink dihydrogen monoxide eventually end up dying. Shit’s dangerous
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
there are three constants in life.
taxes, rule 34, And oxidation.
PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 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 11 months ago
great minds think alike, or something.
RustyNova@lemmy.world 11 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 11 months ago
Have you tried doing it in Rust?
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
nah, i do tea
charlytune@mander.xyz 11 months ago
In rust we trust!
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I bet you sheeple also drink dihydrogen monoxide every day!
OpenStars@discuss.online 11 months ago
Isn’t that there one of them… “forever chemicals”? 😂
DigitalNirvana@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Never trust atoms, they make up everything.
OpenStars@discuss.online 11 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 11 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 11 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 11 months ago
Be sure to drink plenty of Coke to dissolve the rust your body builds up from breathing!
Cethin@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Not just drink, inhale.
helpme@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Is Pepsi okay?
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
is local store cola okay?
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 11 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 11 months ago
Jeez man this oxygen addiction is too great cant withstand 30 seconds without oxygen
Draconic_NEO@mander.xyz 11 months ago
I can do at least 45 seconds up to a full minute.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
If oxidation didn’t happen, you’d suffocate. 😌
Aux@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No you!
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
This isn’t wrong. Don’t put oxygen on a pedastal, it’s toxic stuff.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I mean, it wouldn’t stay on the pedestal anyway. It would just float away.
Draconic_NEO@mander.xyz 11 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 11 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 11 months ago
Wait until OP learns about dihydrogen-monoxide.
the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 11 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 11 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 11 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 11 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 11 months ago
That’s why breathing pure oxygen is bad idea
LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 11 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 11 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 11 months ago
Also pure oxygen is bad long term
MNByChoice@midwest.social 11 months ago
Just iron try to protect life from Cyanobacteria. The war is over, but it fights on.
WhereGrapesMayRule@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Holding my breath from now on.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 11 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 11 months ago
Oxygen is one of the most reactive gases. It can burn iron at 100°C.
PrimeMinisterKeyes@lemmy.world 11 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 11 months ago
This but unitronically
clot27@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I thought this will somehow relate to rust programming language
Dragster39@feddit.de 11 months ago
What oxygen does to your lungs is what Rust does to your brain
cobra89@beehaw.org 11 months ago
I mean it’s not wrong, there’s a reason antioxidants are a thing.
pb42184@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Makes me think of the DHMO awareness campaign
prex@aussie.zone 11 months ago
refalo@programming.dev 11 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 11 months ago
!achievers@lebowski.social
dovahking@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Every creature that had ever breathed oxygen, dies. That’s a 100% mortality rate.
whereBeWaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Every creature that hadn’t breathed oxygen also dies. Can’t live with it can’t live without it.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
A necessary evil
BorgDrone@lemmy.one 11 months ago
Turritopsis dohrnii would like to have a chat.
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Anaerobes have entered the chat
TwentySeven@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I breathe oxygen, I’ve never died
feedmecontent@lemmy.world 11 months ago
All current living creatures are basically a rounding error in that calculation