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[–] dovahking 114 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago (7 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

A necessary evil

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[–] TwentySeven 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I breathe oxygen, I've never died

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[–] Pohl 109 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

A slowly burning fire that pays taxes.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

A slowly burning fire that pays taxes.

That's poetry. Nicely done.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Daft_ish 21 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months 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 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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 7 months ago

Wait a minute, something feels off...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] 5765313496 32 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

there are three constants in life.

taxes, rule 34, And oxidation.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

great minds think alike, or something.

[–] RustyNova 16 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Have you tried doing it in Rust?

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[–] Diplomjodler3 15 points 7 months ago

I bet you sheeple also drink dihydrogen monoxide every day!

[–] Reddfugee42 14 points 7 months 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 7 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Not just drink, inhale.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (11 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I can do at least 45 seconds up to a full minute.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot 4 points 7 months ago (4 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001 10 points 7 months ago (5 children)

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 7 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

That's why breathing pure oxygen is bad idea

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Never trust atoms, they make up everything.

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[–] WhereGrapesMayRule 9 points 7 months ago

Holding my breath from now on.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Wait until OP learns about dihydrogen-monoxide.

[–] ZILtoid1991 9 points 7 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!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes 4 points 7 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This but unitronically

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

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

[–] pb42184 6 points 7 months ago

Makes me think of the DHMO awareness campaign

https://dhmo.org/facts.html

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I thought this will somehow relate to rust programming language

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[–] olafurp 5 points 7 months 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 7 months ago

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

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