moodoovoodoo

@moodoovoodoo@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨take a deep underwater breath⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If phytoplankton didn’t exist, the things removing pure 02 from the ocean through respiration would die. In which case, the ocean would reach O2 solubility equilibrium at a fraction of a percent of atmospheric O2 and would stop uptaking it because there’s nothing left to continue converting it to CO2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨take a deep underwater breath⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s more like 50-60% and it depends on who’s doing the breathing - the vast majority of O2 generated by phytoplankton doesn’t become atmospheric O2 - it stays in the ocean. So yeah, us terrestrials would see terrestrial 02 producers as our glam rock stars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🏭🏭🏭⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That they’re not even on the Epstein Island leaderboard