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MrScorpio

(73,631 posts) Sat Apr 13, 2013, 12:45 PM Apr 2013

What Would Happen If The World Lost Oxygen For 5 Seconds?

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What Would Happen If The World Lost Oxygen For 5 Seconds? (Original Post) MrScorpio Apr 2013 OP

Spiders are NOT insects. Otherwise, this is cool. nt tblue37 Apr 2013 #1

Thank the ancient stramatolites! jimlup Apr 2013 #2

And nearly exterminated life with all this toxic oxygen Xipe Totec Apr 2013 #7

Which also produced iron ore deposits ErikJ Apr 2013 #10

Its really amazing isn't it? jimlup Apr 2013 #11

I'd be concerned if this was a legitimate threat... Cooley Hurd Apr 2013 #3

There's gonna be a fake hearing on UFOs.... Spitfire of ATJ Apr 2013 #4

...and our PRECIOUS body fluids. AND Old People's Medicine! Cooley Hurd Apr 2013 #5

And our gold.... Spitfire of ATJ Apr 2013 #6

Too late. The Gootans are here. valerief Apr 2013 #8

It's not our gold... it's Curley's! Cooley Hurd Apr 2013 #9

Another downside to (at the end) the doubling of oxygen... SeattleVet Apr 2013 #12

tblue37

(65,408 posts)

1. Spiders are NOT insects. Otherwise, this is cool. nt

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Sat Apr 13, 2013, 01:06 PM

Apr 2013

jimlup

(7,968 posts)

2. Thank the ancient stramatolites!

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Sat Apr 13, 2013, 01:51 PM

Apr 2013

All the way back 3.5 billion years ago they started changing a large portion of the CO2 in our atmosphere to O2.

Xipe Totec

(43,890 posts)

7. And nearly exterminated life with all this toxic oxygen

Reply to jimlup (Reply #2)

Sat Apr 13, 2013, 02:06 PM

Apr 2013

Relegating the most successful life forms, anaerobic bacteria, to a few isolated niches.

It was evolve or perish.

ErikJ

(6,335 posts)

10. Which also produced iron ore deposits

Reply to jimlup (Reply #2)

Sat Apr 13, 2013, 02:50 PM

Apr 2013

the O turned the Fe in the seawater to Ferrous oxide (iron) which settled out to the bottom of the oceans giving us our iron ore deposits today.

jimlup

(7,968 posts)

11. Its really amazing isn't it?

Reply to ErikJ (Reply #10)

Sat Apr 13, 2013, 05:34 PM

Apr 2013

Life has had such a remarkable and significant impact on the surface of our planet. Fascinating stuff...

Cooley Hurd

(26,877 posts)

3. I'd be concerned if this was a legitimate threat...

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Sat Apr 13, 2013, 01:53 PM

Apr 2013

...but, there's no immediate (or long-term) threat of this. Not sure why you thought this is relevant?

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)

4. There's gonna be a fake hearing on UFOs....

Reply to Cooley Hurd (Reply #3)

Sat Apr 13, 2013, 01:59 PM

Apr 2013

And as we all know, they're coming for our oxygen.

Cooley Hurd

(26,877 posts)

5. ...and our PRECIOUS body fluids. AND Old People's Medicine!

Reply to Spitfire of ATJ (Reply #4)

Sat Apr 13, 2013, 02:01 PM

Apr 2013

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)

6. And our gold....

Reply to Cooley Hurd (Reply #5)

Sat Apr 13, 2013, 02:05 PM

Apr 2013

valerief

(53,235 posts)

8. Too late. The Gootans are here.

Reply to Spitfire of ATJ (Reply #6)

Sat Apr 13, 2013, 02:32 PM

Apr 2013

http://weeklyworldnews.com/aliens/26535/alien-spaceships-to-attack-earth-in-2013/

Cooley Hurd

(26,877 posts)

9. It's not our gold... it's Curley's!

Reply to Spitfire of ATJ (Reply #6)

Sat Apr 13, 2013, 02:41 PM

Apr 2013

SeattleVet

(5,477 posts)

12. Another downside to (at the end) the doubling of oxygen...

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Sat Apr 13, 2013, 07:14 PM

Apr 2013

Pretty much any spark would start a conflagration that would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to put out. A single lightning strike (out of the thousands that happen every day) would pretty much mean the end of everything.

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