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[-] dovahking@lemmy.world 115 points 2 years ago

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

[-] whereBeWaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 2 years ago

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

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

A necessary evil

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[-] Pohl@lemmy.world 110 points 2 years ago

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

A slowly burning fire that pays taxes.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 50 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

A slowly burning fire that pays taxes.

That's poetry. Nicely done.

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[-] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 62 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

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[-] PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 2 years 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 11 points 2 years ago

Wait a minute, something feels off...

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[-] 5765313496@lemmy.world 33 points 2 years ago

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

[-] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 26 points 2 years ago

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

[-] lseif@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 years ago
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[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 years ago

there are three constants in life.

taxes, rule 34, And oxidation.

[-] PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] RustyNova@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years 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 8 points 2 years ago

Have you tried doing it in Rust?

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[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

I bet you sheeple also drink dihydrogen monoxide every day!

[-] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 15 points 2 years 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 14 points 2 years 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

[-] brown567@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 years ago

Not just drink, inhale.

[-] DestroyMegacorps@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Draconic_NEO@mander.xyz 4 points 2 years ago

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

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 13 points 2 years ago

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

[-] DigitalNirvana@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago

Never trust atoms, they make up everything.

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 4 points 2 years 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.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 13 points 2 years ago

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

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[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 years ago

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

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

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

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[-] Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 years ago

Wait until OP learns about dihydrogen-monoxide.

[-] WhereGrapesMayRule@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Holding my breath from now on.

[-] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 10 points 2 years 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 13 points 2 years 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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[-] uis@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago

That's why breathing pure oxygen is bad idea

[-] DSTGU@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This but unitronically

[-] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 9 points 2 years ago

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

[-] PrimeMinisterKeyes@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years 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.

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years 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!

[-] MNByChoice@midwest.social 7 points 2 years ago

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

[-] clot27@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

I thought this will somehow relate to rust programming language

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[-] pb42184@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Makes me think of the DHMO awareness campaign

https://dhmo.org/facts.html

[-] cobra89@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years ago

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

[-] olafurp@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years 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.

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