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[-] [email protected] 113 points 3 weeks ago

Every creature that had ever breathed oxygen, dies. That's a 100% mortality rate.

[-] [email protected] 37 points 3 weeks ago

Every creature that hadn't breathed oxygen also dies. Can't live with it can't live without it.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

A necessary evil

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[-] [email protected] 106 points 3 weeks ago

Your body is essentially an oxidation reaction that it ponders its place in the universe.

A slowly burning fire that pays taxes.

[-] [email protected] 50 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

A slowly burning fire that pays taxes.

That's poetry. Nicely done.

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[-] [email protected] 61 points 3 weeks ago

Yes. Oxygen does degrade our bodies. Unfortunately, we also need it to stay alive. Life be like that.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It's reported that many people who have died had varying amounts of oxygen in their bloodstream at the time of death.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Oh yeah, reactive oxygen species, right? But iirc those are only confined to certain parts of the cell

[-] [email protected] 34 points 3 weeks 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"

[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

Wait a minute, something feels off...

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I googled this and that's enough internet for today.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 3 weeks ago

Just eat enough antioxidants to flush all of the oxygen out of your body!

[-] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago

Jeez, imagine coding in rust, that can't be good for you.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago
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[-] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago

there are three constants in life.

taxes, rule 34, And oxidation.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago

the fact that I made a rule 34 joke about this without even seeing this comment is so great

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

great minds think alike, or something.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago

I bet you sheeple also drink dihydrogen monoxide every day!

[-] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks 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!<

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

Have you tried doing it in Rust?

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks 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.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

We joke but oxygen is a caustic poison and when it came on the scene, evolution practically had to start over

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event

[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

Jeez man this oxygen addiction is too great cant withstand 30 seconds without oxygen

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

Be sure to drink plenty of Coke to dissolve the rust your body builds up from breathing!

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Not just drink, inhale.

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

Isn't that there one of them... "forever chemicals"? 😂

[-] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago

Never trust atoms, they make up everything.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks 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.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

If oxidation didn't happen, you'd suffocate. 😌

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

This isn't wrong. Don't put oxygen on a pedastal, it's toxic stuff.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I mean, it wouldn't stay on the pedestal anyway. It would just float away.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

Wait until OP learns about dihydrogen-monoxide.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks 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.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks 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.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks 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?

[-] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks 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!

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

That's why breathing pure oxygen is bad idea

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

Holding my breath from now on.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks 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!

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

Oxygen is one of the most reactive gases. It can burn iron at 100°C.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

This but unitronically

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Just iron try to protect life from Cyanobacteria. The war is over, but it fights on.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

I thought this will somehow relate to rust programming language

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Makes me think of the DHMO awareness campaign

https://dhmo.org/facts.html

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

I mean it's not wrong, there's a reason antioxidants are a thing.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
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[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

It's true my friend works with it and their hair went blue

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