Your body is essentially an oxidation reaction that it ponders its place in the universe.
A slowly burning fire that pays taxes.
Oxygen
Submitted 1 year ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Pohl@lemmy.world 1 year ago
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 year ago
A slowly burning fire that pays taxes.
That’s poetry. Nicely done.No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Atomic@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Yes. Oxygen does degrade our bodies. Unfortunately, we also need it to stay alive. Life be like that.
Daft_ish@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
Oh yeah, reactive oxygen species, right? But iirc those are only confined to certain parts of the cell
5765313496@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Just eat enough antioxidants to flush all of the oxygen out of your body!
PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year 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 1 year ago
Wait a minute, something feels off…
thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 1 year ago
I googled this and that’s enough internet for today.
pumpkinseedoil@mander.xyz 7 months ago
Where does it lead? I’m not brave enough
baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 1 year ago
Jeez, imagine coding in rust, that can’t be good for you.
lseif@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
its apparently safe
uis@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Prepare buckets of water for melted processors
baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 1 year ago
Yeah, that is the “government” tells you!
asg101@hexbear.net 1 year ago
If you think that is bad, just wait til you learn about Dihydrogen Monoxide. That shit kills.
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Stop downplaying it, call it by it’s most descriptive name:
Hydric acidAquilae@hexbear.net 1 year ago
100% of the people who drink dihydrogen monoxide eventually end up dying. Shit’s dangerous
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
there are three constants in life.
taxes, rule 34, And oxidation.
PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
the fact that I made a rule 34 joke about this without even seeing this comment is so great
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
great minds think alike, or something.
RustyNova@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
Have you tried doing it in Rust?
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
nah, i do tea
charlytune@mander.xyz 1 year ago
In rust we trust!
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I bet you sheeple also drink dihydrogen monoxide every day!
OpenStars@discuss.online 1 year ago
Isn’t that there one of them… “forever chemicals”? 😂
DigitalNirvana@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Never trust atoms, they make up everything.
OpenStars@discuss.online 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
Be sure to drink plenty of Coke to dissolve the rust your body builds up from breathing!
Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Not just drink, inhale.
helpme@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Is Pepsi okay?
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
is local store cola okay?
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year 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 1 year ago
Jeez man this oxygen addiction is too great cant withstand 30 seconds without oxygen
Draconic_NEO@mander.xyz 1 year ago
I can do at least 45 seconds up to a full minute.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 year ago
If oxidation didn’t happen, you’d suffocate. 😌
Aux@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No you!
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
This isn’t wrong. Don’t put oxygen on a pedastal, it’s toxic stuff.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I mean, it wouldn’t stay on the pedestal anyway. It would just float away.
Draconic_NEO@mander.xyz 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
Wait until OP learns about dihydrogen-monoxide.
the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
That’s why breathing pure oxygen is bad idea
LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
Also pure oxygen is bad long term
MNByChoice@midwest.social 1 year ago
Just iron try to protect life from Cyanobacteria. The war is over, but it fights on.
WhereGrapesMayRule@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Holding my breath from now on.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
Oxygen is one of the most reactive gases. It can burn iron at 100°C.
PrimeMinisterKeyes@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
This but unitronically
clot27@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I thought this will somehow relate to rust programming language
Dragster39@feddit.de 1 year ago
What oxygen does to your lungs is what Rust does to your brain
cobra89@beehaw.org 1 year ago
I mean it’s not wrong, there’s a reason antioxidants are a thing.
pb42184@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Makes me think of the DHMO awareness campaign
prex@aussie.zone 1 year ago
refalo@programming.dev 1 year 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 1 year ago
!achievers@lebowski.social
dovahking@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Every creature that had ever breathed oxygen, dies. That’s a 100% mortality rate.
whereBeWaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Every creature that hadn’t breathed oxygen also dies. Can’t live with it can’t live without it.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
A necessary evil
BorgDrone@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Turritopsis dohrnii would like to have a chat.
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Anaerobes have entered the chat
TwentySeven@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I breathe oxygen, I’ve never died
feedmecontent@lemmy.world 1 year ago
All current living creatures are basically a rounding error in that calculation