After counting all my money in one breath, somehow I don't feel any better.
I don’t get it, I regularly hold my breath for a second or two with no adverse consequences.
Hmm, counted to zero. No change.
I have 11¢
If I’m in the negative do I just keep inhaling?
I can hold my breath for about 90 seconds but I ain’t got that much money to count. Often wonder how long I could hold it with some training.
That's why you get rich and buy oxygen scrubbers and rebreathers.
A friend once told me: "If trees spawned WiFi we'd plant them everywhere, but sadly they only produce Oxygen."
I love nature, but interestingly apparently photosynthesis doesn't actually contribute all that much oxygen and Earth's levels would stay stable for millions of years if all organic matter disappeared. We'd have many, many other problems, but not that one specifically:
“If all the stuff on earth that consumed oxygen disappeared then the levels would be stable for a long time” yea, buddy, that’s kinda just how that works.
That's not what I meant, I meant if all organic life that produces oxygen disappeared.
Photosynthesis is generally so slow at it's job that the current oxygen levels were only built up over hundreds of millions of years. Furthermore, Rubisco, a key enzyme in photosynthesis, surprisingly, is slow and not very good at distinguishing oxygen from carbon dioxide, because it evolved before there was much oxygen on Earth. Therefore a lot of oxygen was produced at the beginning, most of the oxygen we have today in fact, and then not very much thereafter.
Additionally, the Earth's oxygen levels stay stable due to the release of oxygen trapped in minerals. Over those hundreds of millions of years, they absorbed it. This absorption and release has kept levels stable for well beyond our existence.
At least that's what I got from the PBS video. If you don't agree, go argue with them, I'm no expert. I'm just forwarding what I learned.
I’m not even sure what to do with this argument. It’s irrelevant. An exercise in extraneous thought. No, we wouldn’t have millions of years - unless you’re referring to molecular oxygen vs higher life form sustaining oxygen, and it certainly would stabilize once all life was gone. There’d be nothing left to care. Maybe a few thousand years. Estimates are all over the place, from 1,500 to 2 million years.
Photosynthesizing plants remove carbon dioxide in addition to producing oxygen. We’d feel the effects of depleted oxygen long before it “ran out.” We’d also be killed by the excess CO2 before the oxygen disappeared. And of course, all higher life on this planet would be dead in a month or so if plants disappeared seeing as plant life is pretty much the base of the food chain for most everything.
I just thought it was an interesting video that challenges what I previously understood about one specific thing 😅 I'm not advocating against the environment, neither is the video, that'd be terrible for many reasons. It's just that the video is from PBS and seems pretty evidence based in why photosynthesis is quite terrible at converting CO2 to oxygen due to the shortcomings of the enzyme Rubisco and how we could improve that. Nothing more than that. Give it a watch, it's not some anti-environment conspiracy video
Fucks it here y'all go
February 14, 1999
www.latimes.com A Real Gas - Los Angeles Times HEIDI SEIGMUND CUDA 4 minutes
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
O2, the new oxygen bar Woody Harrelson and wife Laurie Louie opened on the Sunset Strip, couldn’t have come along at a more crucial time. Hollywood debauchery runs in cycles, and the last time anyone checked his head was just after River Phoenix’s death. His 1993 overdose, which occurred down the street from O2, happened just long enough ago that many seem to have forgotten about the perils of illicit drug cocktails. That might explain why sex and drugs and rock ‘n’ roll are so “in” again.
For those who want to live until daylight--or those who, at the very least, actually see daylight on occasion--this popular bar and restaurant is an ethereal sanctuary. Designed with an airy intergalactic feel, O2--the brainchild of holistic physician Dr. D DeAndrea--offers unavoidable lessons in healthful living.
The all-veggie menu features food in the raw. If you look closely, you can see the vitamins snap, crackle and pop. . . . Well, maybe that’s just the heady effect of the oxygen-enriched air streaming into your nostrils. The hook at O2 is the oxygen, plain ($13) or flavored ($15) per 20-minute hit. Just strap yourself onto a tank as if it were a modern-day life-support system.
Oxygen is the only high offered at O2, which doesn’t serve caffeine or alcohol. Surprisingly, this little factoid doesn’t keep the masses away. In fact, in a mere three months, O2 has become one of the hottest night spots on the Strip. Maybe it’s the comfy hemp-covered booths or the tutti-frutti cocktails designed to pry open those senses rather than dull them. Gotta say, it’s a nice change from the smoky dens of inequity we usually cozy up to.
But all the lessons in health-conscious living do take some getting used to. Depending on whom you chat with at the bar, you might be too ridden with guilt to eat sushi again after a lesson on the ills of farming the ocean (O2 offers fish-free sushi).
The club is relatively small, but once you pass through the main dining area, there’s a dance room with a big mirror that makes the space appear larger than it actually is. There’s also an opium-type den, which is where the majority of folks are catching air. It looks like something out of a ‘60s flick, except the well-heeled kids are wearing hemp rather than Nehru.
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Like the neighboring House of Blues, O2 comes with its own motto: Eat--Drink--Breathe--Love. It’s not a bad ethos when you think about it, and judging by the looks of things, an O2 love connection isn’t farfetched. Even on a Monday night, when promoters Green Galactic and Public Space host Green Space, the place is packed with neo-hippies grooving in unison to DJ-driven abstract electronica.
Other weekly events include Strangefruit, a Friday night electric funkfest paying homage to “frugivores,” or fruit lovers; Wednesday, Poetry Slam; Sunday, Gay Love Lounge. Saturday after-hours there’s a party hosted by the Bud Brothers. Remember, one of the perks of not getting your guests loaded is that you can stay open later.
Still, something about all those lessons in cleaner can make you want to high-tail it out of there and into the raunchiest rock ‘n’ roll joint you can find. You can lead a horse to water, but he still may want a drink.
BE THERE
O2, 8788 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, (310) 360-9002. All ages, cover varies.
