Every creature that had ever breathed oxygen, dies. That's a 100% mortality rate.
Every creature that hadn't breathed oxygen also dies. Can't live with it can't live without it.
A necessary evil
Your body is essentially an oxidation reaction that it ponders its place in the universe.
A slowly burning fire that pays taxes.
A slowly burning fire that pays taxes.
That's poetry. Nicely done.
Yes. Oxygen does degrade our bodies. Unfortunately, we also need it to stay alive. Life be like that.
It's reported that many people who have died had varying amounts of oxygen in their bloodstream at the time of death.
Just eat enough antioxidants to flush all of the oxygen out of your body!
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"
Wait a minute, something feels off...
Jeez, imagine coding in rust, that can't be good for you.
If you think that is bad, just wait til you learn about Dihydrogen Monoxide. That shit kills.
Stop downplaying it, call it by its most descriptive name:
Hydric acid
100% of the people who drink dihydrogen monoxide eventually end up dying. Shit's dangerous
there are three constants in life.
taxes, rule 34, And oxidation.
the fact that I made a rule 34 joke about this without even seeing this comment is so great
great minds think alike, or something.
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!<
I bet you sheeple also drink dihydrogen monoxide every day!
Isn't that there one of them... "forever chemicals"? 😂
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.
Be sure to drink plenty of Coke to dissolve the rust your body builds up from breathing!
Not just drink, inhale.
Jeez man this oxygen addiction is too great cant withstand 30 seconds without oxygen
We joke but oxygen is a caustic poison and when it came on the scene, evolution practically had to start over
This isn't wrong. Don't put oxygen on a pedastal, it's toxic stuff.
I mean, it wouldn't stay on the pedestal anyway. It would just float away.
I read some interesting comment before (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 that's kinda what free radicals are about, that we are burning up on a cellular level, albiet over the course of our lifetimes
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.
It's true. The medical field over the last few decades has curbed when to give patients high flow concentrated oxygen for this reason.
Wait until OP learns about dihydrogen-monoxide.
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?
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!
Holding my breath from now on.
That's why breathing pure oxygen is bad idea
Oxygen is one of the most reactive gases. It can burn iron at 100°C.
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.
This but unitronically
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!
I mean it's not wrong, there's a reason antioxidants are a thing.
Oxidative stress is a major factor in health and longevity. People who stop breathing oxygen before dieing generally live a bigger proportion of their lives healthy on average.
It's true my friend works with it and their hair went blue
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