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Oxygen how much do we have left? 2
#22213955 - 09/09/15 07:42 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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So im curious, is there any research out there that tells us how much oxygen the earth currently has, and how low it has to get until we start dieing or having serious health problems?
I just find it odd that we are chopping down the amazon like there will be no consequences
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: makaveli8x8] 1
#22213983 - 09/09/15 07:49 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Most of the oxygen supply comes from plankton and other photosynthizing microbes in the ocean
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: koods] 1
#22213992 - 09/09/15 07:50 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Let's all take a moment to thank the plankton for their service to our cause
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: OhMrJohnson]
#22214001 - 09/09/15 07:52 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Right on little plankton.
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: OhMrJohnson]
#22214019 - 09/09/15 07:54 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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ive wondered this too, like people dont realize you burn one part liquid fuel with one part air, because fire needs oxygen.
so your saying theres enough oxygen being produced by plnakton for us even at the rate we exhaust it?
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: OhMrJohnson]
#22214035 - 09/09/15 07:57 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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OhMrJohnson said: Let's all take a moment to thank the plankton for their service to our cause
plankton homeys...we salute you
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: Nifflerz]
#22214054 - 09/09/15 08:00 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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I knew plankton produced O2, but I thought I always heard that the amazon was "the lungs of the earth" I assumed they meant for air
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: makaveli8x8]
#22214063 - 09/09/15 08:01 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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but even if it is mostly plankton the question still remains, how much O2 do we have, how quickly is it going down, at what point do we start buying air at gas stations?
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: makaveli8x8]
#22214071 - 09/09/15 08:02 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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makaveli8x8 said: but I thought I always heard that the amazon was "the lungs of the earth" I assumed they meant for air
Nah, the amazon self proclaimed that slogan. Seems pretty arrogant if you ask me.
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: makaveli8x8]
#22214075 - 09/09/15 08:03 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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makaveli8x8 said: So im curious, is there any research out there that tells us how much oxygen the earth currently has, and how low it has to get until we start dieing or having serious health problems?
I just find it odd that we are chopping down the amazon like there will be no consequences
there are more trees on this planet today then there was 50 years ago
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: makaveli8x8]
#22214088 - 09/09/15 08:05 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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My guess is not any time soon.
The earth would wipe us out before we ever had a chance to destroy it's oxygen levels. The earth can take care of itself forever. Until the sun burns out or we get hit by a giant rock or something.
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: makaveli8x8] 5
#22214090 - 09/09/15 08:05 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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makaveli8x8 said: but even if it is mostly plankton the question still remains, how much O2 do we have
all of it
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how quickly is it going down
or up. it could be going up, high into the stratosphere where we'll never be able to reach it
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at what point do we start buying air at gas stations?
we're already buying air at gas stations
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: Prisoner#1]
#22214093 - 09/09/15 08:06 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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makaveli8x8 said: So im curious, is there any research out there that tells us how much oxygen the earth currently has, and how low it has to get until we start dieing or having serious health problems?
I just find it odd that we are chopping down the amazon like there will be no consequences
there are more trees on this planet today then there was 50 years ago
maybe, and that's a big maybe. but the only reason that might be true is because of all the seedlings planted. which don't produce a fraction of what those 500 foot giants in the amazon do, or all the ones we used to have that are gone now too
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I think we have plenty
I mean I'm pretty much breathing the same way I was back when I was born
I'm gonna estimate our remaining air level at a healthy 84%
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: makaveli8x8]
#22214121 - 09/09/15 08:11 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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When they talk about CO2 levels being really high, it's still only a few hundredths of a percent of the atmosphere whereas O2 is about 21%. The increase in CO2 is not making a significant dent in O2 levels at all.
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: psi]
#22214125 - 09/09/15 08:13 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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So does the oxygen in carbon dioxide not count? I'm terrible at reading between the lines.
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: makaveli8x8]
#22214127 - 09/09/15 08:13 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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makaveli8x8 said: but even if it is mostly plankton the question still remains, how much O2 do we have, how quickly is it going down, at what point do we start buying air at gas stations?
Oxygen is constantly being supplied. Without photosynthesis the remaining oxygen wouldn't last very long most would be consumed reacting with organic material and weathering of rocks.
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: Nifflerz]
#22214129 - 09/09/15 08:13 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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id just like to get the O2 levels back up to where they were when the dinosaurs were alive, so that we can start to grow bigger.
I was reading these news articles and they had a picture of an ice sheet in the ocean that was blue, and they said it was blue because of all the oxygen it contained, which made me wonder how much O2 we were getting from them as well. like once they finally stop melting maybe our o2 starts dropping really fast.
at anyrate id like to be as big as a T-rex one day, what about you guys?
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: DieCommie]
#22214147 - 09/09/15 08:17 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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DieCommie said: So does the oxygen in carbon dioxide not count? I'm terrible at reading between the lines.
oxygen in CO2 is it's lowest energy state and requires energy to break the bond. That is what photosynthesis is. Photosynthesis stores the energy as sugars, and that energy is returned when sugars are oxidized with oxygen.
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: koods]
#22214162 - 09/09/15 08:20 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Thanks for sharing.
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: DieCommie]
#22214193 - 09/09/15 08:23 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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I think I read someone invented a carbon scrubber thing that pulls carbon out of the air and creates oxygen, so I guess it might be possible to convert all that CO2 one day
you'd think nature would already have a way to do this for us
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: DieCommie]
#22214197 - 09/09/15 08:25 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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DieCommie said: So does the oxygen in carbon dioxide not count? I'm terrible at reading between the lines.
Was this in response to my comment? I figure that if ~99.8% of the oxygen atoms in dry atmospheric air are in the form of O2, the amount taken up as carbon dioxide is pretty much completely insignificant to us having a high enough proportion of O2 to breathe at this time and in the near future. If O2 levels were to go down to say 15% and those oxygen atoms all became carbon dioxide, that would mean ~150x higher levels of CO2 than today (~6%.)
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: psi]
#22214334 - 09/09/15 08:54 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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What Would Happen If The World Lost Oxygen For 5 Seconds?
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: psi]
#22214351 - 09/09/15 08:58 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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I guess when you burn fossil fuels you also get some oxygen going to water which is not registered in those dry atmosphere stats, and I was reading somewhere just now that below about 19.5% O2 is less than ideal for humans. Still though, you'd need much bigger changes than we have seen so far from the industrial era to make even that kind of dent.
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: psi]
#22216962 - 09/10/15 01:41 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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DieCommie said: So does the oxygen in carbon dioxide not count? I'm terrible at reading between the lines.
Was this in response to my comment? I figure that if ~99.8% of the oxygen atoms in dry atmospheric air are in the form of O2, the amount taken up as carbon dioxide is pretty much completely insignificant to us having a high enough proportion of O2 to breathe at this time and in the near future. If O2 levels were to go down to say 15% and those oxygen atoms all became carbon dioxide, that would mean ~150x higher levels of CO2 than today (~6%.)
A response to all and your comment... Oxygen is an element. It exists as oxygen no matter what it is bonded too. Oxygen that goes from being bound up as O2 to being bound up as CO2 is still oxygen. I read the thread title and immediately thought that very little oxygen is being transmuted into other elements, so the amount is effectively conserved and static. But the responses seem to be answering a different question which is related to the health problems alluded to in the first post. That should have been my clue.
I guess the question is how much breathable O2 do we have left?
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: makaveli8x8]
#22216972 - 09/10/15 01:44 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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According to the current model of the universe, aren't all the oxygen molecules that exist constant? Did I miss something?
EDIT: OK DieCommie and I are thinking the same. I thought I was having an ardtard moment or something.
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: abltsandwich]
#22216982 - 09/10/15 01:47 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Nuclear reactions can change them. There used to be no oxygen in the universe. But those reactions are hard to come by outside of a star, so effectively the amount of oxygen is constant (as long as you are not in a star).
See these two pages for nuclear reactions that can make or destroy oxygen in a star.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen-burning_process https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neon-burning_process
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: DieCommie]
#22217004 - 09/10/15 01:52 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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I don't know how much oxygen there is left.
All I know is that I stocked up in case of a zombie apocalypse.
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: koods]
#22217006 - 09/10/15 01:52 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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koods said: Most of the oxygen supply comes from plankton and other photosynthizing microbes in the ocean
...............and russians giant tree plains.................
the amazon is nothing compared to that
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: Uzziel]
#22217223 - 09/10/15 02:48 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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koods said: Most of the oxygen supply comes from plankton and other photosynthizing microbes in the ocean
...............and russians giant tree plains.................
the amazon is nothing compared to that
I don't know about that, even though it sounds edgy
WWF claims Amazon produces 20% of the worlds Oxygen, if plankton creates 50% then that doesn't leave a massive amount for the Russian forests, taking into account the large forests in North America, Africa, etc.
They're mostly relatively sparse as far as biodensity goes afaik.
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: makaveli8x8]
#22217293 - 09/10/15 03:06 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Where is all the oxygen going?
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: nicechrisman]
#22217471 - 09/10/15 03:53 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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perhaps a more important question is at what % is their not enough O2 to create the ozone layer and all that good stuff anymore
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: nicechrisman]
#22217591 - 09/10/15 04:26 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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nicechrisman said: Where is all the oxygen going?
It gets consumed in reactions with other elements. Oxygen is too reactive to normally exist in its elemental state without some process to resupply it. That process is photosynthesis.
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: Uzziel] 1
#22217625 - 09/10/15 04:32 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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The ocean is acidifying due to CO2. This affects pyhtoplankton levels.
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: koods]
#22217663 - 09/10/15 04:45 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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But the oxygen doesn't go away does it? I mean the O atoms still exist, they just get locked up in forms that we aren't able to use.
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: nicechrisman]
#22217823 - 09/10/15 05:24 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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nicechrisman said: But the oxygen doesn't go away does it? I mean the O atoms still exist, they just get locked up in forms that we aren't able to use.
Yes. It does not get "consumed".
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: makaveli8x8]
#22217880 - 09/10/15 05:37 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Don't believe that garbage. Point 1. there are more trees now than there were 100 years ago. 2. marine plants, including algae produce between 70-80% of the worlds oxygen. Nuff said I think.
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: twoseeeye]
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Yeah fuck preserving forests.
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: twoseeeye]
#22217889 - 09/10/15 05:40 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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twoseeeye said: Don't believe that garbage. Point 1. there are more trees now than there were 100 years ago. 2. marine plants, including algae produce between 70-80% of the worlds oxygen. Nuff said I think.
Nah, two factoids without context or substantiation are not nearly "nuff said".
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: DieCommie]
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Bio-diversity is over rated. Northern Canada has the most bio-productive forests in the world. Diversity is to be respected but productivity is hard to argue with at best.Quote:
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twoseeeye said: Don't believe that garbage. Point 1. there are more trees now than there were 100 years ago. 2. marine plants, including algae produce between 70-80% of the worlds oxygen. Nuff said I think.
Nah, two factoids without context or substantiation are not nearly "nuff said".
Yeah OP seemed to stay on the computer for longer than feasible with that much in edibles.
http://www.ecology.com/2011/09/12/important-organism/
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/stories/more-trees-than-there-were-100-years-ago-its-true
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: nicechrisman]
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I'm not against preserving forests, it is the preservation programs put in place by the civilized world that make my first fact true, I'm just against suggesting that the sky is falling.
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: twoseeeye]
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twoseeeye said: Don't believe that garbage. Point 1. there are more trees now than there were 100 years ago. 2. marine plants, including algae produce between 70-80% of the worlds oxygen. Nuff said I think.
we have more tree's because they cut down the big ones and replanted tiny ones that may or may not even live. so those numbers may or may not be correct on the tree's and even if we do have more tree's we surely don't have more O2 coming from them, and we surely aren't going to let them get as big as they used to be either before we go chop chop chop again, and that cycle as has already been happening leads to deserts n shit so yah tree numbers will be going down not up.
all the little forests around here that people don't even chop down for lumber are dieing, none of them look healthy when you actually go in and look at them or look at them in the winter really well you'll notice it.
for some reason tho they manage to get fairly big along roads, guess its lack of competition
also the tree's cut down in the congo DON"T get replanted, they are just savagely ripping that shit apart with no regard for the age of tree's, infact they target the oldest ones first for their value
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: makaveli8x8]
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Our planet is mostly oxygen, it isn't going anywhere. O2 on the other hand...
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: fapjack]
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fapjack said: Our planet is mostly oxygen, it isn't going anywhere. O2 on the other hand...
Huh, I thought that was Silicon but I just googled it and it turns out that it is Oxygen.
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: DieCommie]
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nicechrisman said: But the oxygen doesn't go away does it? I mean the O atoms still exist, they just get locked up in forms that we aren't able to use.
Yes. It does not get "consumed".
Reactants are consumed when they react with each other
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: koods]
#22218123 - 09/10/15 06:37 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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But atoms do not, not in chemical reactions. Oxygen is an atom.
One uses this fact to balance chemical equations.
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: DieCommie]
#22218135 - 09/10/15 06:39 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Exactly. O and O2 are different.
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: makaveli8x8]
#22218170 - 09/10/15 06:45 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Maybe the trees by the road get bigger because trees breath the evil C02 our cars produce. IDK. I do have faith however that as the less civilized countries expand and become more civilized, they will adapt policy more in line with ours, and furthermore I submit that its likely to happen before we all run out of air. The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones, after all.
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: nicechrisman]
#22218178 - 09/10/15 06:47 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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I think some atmospheric oxygen does diffuse off into space and get lost permanently.
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: twoseeeye]
#22218184 - 09/10/15 06:49 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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so with all the sea life dieing, ocean acidification, ect ect, and since plankton provides most of our air apparently, it means our air supply is even more fragil because all the plankton could just die over night if it hits the wrong PH.
so infact our tree's are extremely more important, as they are our only real safety net if the ocean goes turds up on us
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: psi]
#22218189 - 09/10/15 06:50 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Interesting. I've not heard that before. So are new oxygen atoms actually created? I thought they were just re arranged by plants of phytoplankton into useable O2.
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: nicechrisman] 1
#22218216 - 09/10/15 06:55 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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It's limited a lot by the protection of Earth's magnetic field I believe. Not sure how much new elemental oxygen may be produced by nuclear processes on Earth.
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: psi]
#22218220 - 09/10/15 06:55 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Interesting stuff
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: nicechrisman]
#22218250 - 09/10/15 07:01 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Apparently the magnetic field has a lot to do with the planet having a molten core. I think a lot of the planets and moons in out solar system with minimal atmospheres have cores that cooled down and became solid, so they lost that protection.
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: makaveli8x8]
#22218259 - 09/10/15 07:03 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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If the ocean goes turds up we're fucked, the trees would never produce enough oxygen to sustain all of us and every other oxygen breathing creature. Maybe your question should have been about oceans acicifying rather than trees being chopped. I'd say that's a more valid concern.
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: twoseeeye]
#22218737 - 09/10/15 08:55 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Both are extremely valid environmental concerns.
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another potential killer for the plankton is that radiation from those nuclear plants, they could cause a DNA mutation in either the plankton, or the food that it eats, that causes it directly or indirectly to stop making O2, and it just continues to breed like that until all that's left is mutated plankton
can someone tell me why this photo shows up when I search fukushima mutations????
it really puzzles me, its like the 2nd picture listed are those silly japaniese making fun of americans for worrying about their reactors or what
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: Nifflerz]
#22218805 - 09/10/15 09:07 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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makaveli8x8 said: but I thought I always heard that the amazon was "the lungs of the earth" I assumed they meant for air
Nah, the amazon self proclaimed that slogan. Seems pretty arrogant if you ask me.
yeah, stupid fucking trees!
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: Mad_Larkin]
#22220201 - 09/11/15 05:36 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Marijuana plants produce massive amounts of oxygen
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Re: Oxygen how much do we have left? [Re: psi]
#22220357 - 09/11/15 06:30 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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psi said: I think some atmospheric oxygen does diffuse off into space and get lost permanently.
It wouldn't be much because the air pressure is so low and O2 is a fairly large molecule. The molecules need to collide in the right direction and gain enough energy to break through the magnetic forces, which isn't a common event. Gas molecules gain speed as their temperature increases.
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