Oxygen Is Killing You | Answers With Joe

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    We all know you need oxygen to live. But why? What happens to oxygen in our bodies? Why does it keep us alive? And maybe most importantly, why does it slowly kill us?
    In today's video, I explore the process of respiration, how it's weirdly similar to fire, and why we rely on one of the most corrosive elements in the universe to survive. It gets weirdly existential.
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  • @brianmandeville1117
    @brianmandeville1117 2 года назад +441

    "why do we stare in the fire?"
    My dad always called fire "caveman television" on camping trips. Funny to hear that there is some truth to that statement.

    • @mohamadhoseinf1560
      @mohamadhoseinf1560 2 года назад +7

      your father is a wise man

    • @henrythegreatamerican8136
      @henrythegreatamerican8136 2 года назад +3

      We stare at fire because we are subliminally thinking of all the potential destruction it can cause to our enemies if "our tribe" just learned better ways to abuse it!

    • @Phlyinhigh
      @Phlyinhigh 2 года назад +18

      @@henrythegreatamerican8136 Yeah no thats a very cynical view point not all humans are violent

    • @restaurantelajoya6929
      @restaurantelajoya6929 2 года назад +5

      We didn't start the fire.

    • @jacobburns1095
      @jacobburns1095 2 года назад +7

      @@Phlyinhigh I don't agree with Henry, I think we like fire for a multitude of reasons. But humans are violent. Violence was necessary for our survival. In modern times it's mostly subconscious, most don't realize they have that side to them. Until they are put in a situation where it's needed, or comes out anyway. The fight or flight response, every human has both of these behavior hardwired into them. No matter how how nice and gentle someone is, they still have the potential to be violent. We are animals, trap an animal and it will fight to defend itself.
      Humans are also predators, without the capability of violence we wouldn't have made it this far. The hunt for prey using our smart brains and groups of people is literally what made humanity who we are today. We aren't a new species either. We are the same humans as those hunter-gatherers who lived thousands of years ago.

  • @0130wallace
    @0130wallace 2 года назад +695

    One of the first 'Philosoraptor' memes was:
    "What if oxygen is actually toxic and just takes 80-100 years to kill you?"
    Philosoraptor is wise.

    • @suicideistheanswer369
      @suicideistheanswer369 2 года назад +26

      ah, good ol' days, except for the rage comics. i'm glad that one ended.

    • @xironevarus576
      @xironevarus576 2 года назад +6

      I was high when the thought came up. So wise may not be the word

    • @LoneStarr1979
      @LoneStarr1979 2 года назад +15

      Point is: Oxigen is actually toxic. When breathing pure oxigen under a [edit: slightly] high pressure (59 m and deeper [edit: actually 3..4 m]) the oxigen toxicates you because the anti-oxidising mechanisms in your body do not work properly / at all under theese conditions.
      Edit thanks to Rex Mann for pointing out my error.

    • @ludwigvanbeethoven61
      @ludwigvanbeethoven61 2 года назад +11

      The Substance that keeps you alive simultaneously kills you

    • @apparently2
      @apparently2 2 года назад +7

      @@ludwigvanbeethoven61 How's that for ying-yang?

  • @DigitalJedi
    @DigitalJedi 2 года назад +61

    Pro tip: By staying underwater for an extended period of time, the atmosphere can't kill you anymore. I mean, the lack of it will, much faster, but _the atmosphere_ won't kill you.

    • @DrPOP-jp7eb
      @DrPOP-jp7eb 2 года назад +3

      So true. You can stay underwater for the rest of your life.

  • @TheOriginalJAX
    @TheOriginalJAX 2 года назад +155

    Admittedly i already know what joe is talking about before even watching the video on this one. doesn't matter though, I want to know what Joe has come to learn and witness his dread and sense of impending doom play out, priceless. Love you buddy.

    • @reubennichols644
      @reubennichols644 2 года назад +1

      -
      - - - Soooooooooooo M a n y
      " " Comments " " within . . . just . . .
      . . . 2 4 hours . G R E A T Job
      - - J o e - - at Arousing Curiosity . . .
      . . . Peaking Peoples Interests ---
      --- & --- Educating The Masses .
      I L O V E A L L Your videos . . .
      . . . even the B A D ones (( heh -
      - heh - - - j o k e )) . The H U G E
      Range of subject matter that you
      are willing to touch upon .
      - - - B R I L L I A N T - - -
      . . . A N D . . . Far More Importantly . . .
      . . . Delightfully E n t e r t a i n i n g .
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    • @aytaf5430
      @aytaf5430 2 года назад +1

      me too

  • @juliaconnell
    @juliaconnell 2 года назад +594

    goddammit Joe you're right - oxygen *is* killing me - going to give up that nasty oxygen addiction right now...

    • @ashj_2088
      @ashj_2088 2 года назад +19

      As I drink my second litre of milk today , you could say I've been addicted to the white stuff since birth.👈🤯👍

    • @juliaconnell
      @juliaconnell 2 года назад +2

      @@ashj_2088 milk? or oxygen?

    • @ashj_2088
      @ashj_2088 2 года назад +1

      @@juliaconnell milk 😋 🥰of course

    • @juliaconnell
      @juliaconnell 2 года назад +10

      @@ashj_2088 LOL the subject of the day is *oxygen* you milk fiend you - milk is very good for you, though an overindulgence is some things (even things like water!) can be detrimental to ones health (check out chubbyemu's channel - I don't think milk is included - but other things are... presented)

    • @pinkimietz3243
      @pinkimietz3243 2 года назад +3

      Are you still there?

  • @bazoo513
    @bazoo513 2 года назад +242

    4:00 - Supernova is needed only to disperse oxygen - unlike elements heavier that iron, it is mainly produced by good old fusion inside stars, specifically in CNO cycle.

    • @ilikeyourname4807
      @ilikeyourname4807 2 года назад +30

      If you hadn't commented this, I would have. So now I'm just bumping it up the list

    • @magtovi
      @magtovi 2 года назад +8

      This.

    • @witchdoctor6502
      @witchdoctor6502 2 года назад +6

      Yes, but I don't think it is such a big deal on a channel like this. Its like saying Earth's orbit is round - it isn't, but for everyday life the difference doesn't matter.

    • @lavadax2
      @lavadax2 2 года назад +2

      Thanks! @Joe love you channel, but next time try to do a bit better on the fact checking.

    • @OmateYayami
      @OmateYayami 2 года назад +5

      @@witchdoctor6502 No, it isn't the same. It's a big difference, it's not like correct within few percent error limit approximation. I think it's somewhat a deal on a channel like this because it's defining the quality.

  • @matthew.c5578
    @matthew.c5578 2 года назад +204

    “We are in a way, living flame. But the fire fades”
    - Joe, a man who secretly plays DarkSouls

    • @enjyn09
      @enjyn09 2 года назад +11

      Literally waded thru the comments section to find this. You did not disappoint. 👍

    • @BassRemedy
      @BassRemedy 2 года назад +7

      ashen one... be sure to bring more souls... 😈

    • @c.guydubois8270
      @c.guydubois8270 2 года назад

      Fuel depleted? Here the

    • @MediHusky
      @MediHusky 2 года назад

      Big oil got him before he could reveal the secrets of eco fuel.

  • @mrPauljacob
    @mrPauljacob 2 года назад +21

    I'm an arborist... So I've burned unknown amounts of brush in my life. Even then im never not completely mesmerized by it. It's truly so enigmatic and provoking yet calming and comforting.

  • @brendanvanbiljon3861
    @brendanvanbiljon3861 2 года назад +504

    I just realized why this channel is so successful. Joe talks as if what he's talking about is common knowledge, making us feel familiar with the subject.
    Cyanobacteria, I know right!🤗

    • @gen0megen0me93
      @gen0megen0me93 2 года назад +23

      There is more, to that. His sense of humor is so brutally honest, that everyone can personalize self scepticism to his dark thoughts :]

    • @gabrielgonzalez1993
      @gabrielgonzalez1993 2 года назад +2

      Tiny glow friends 🥳

    • @ilovegunsandhuntingandradi5912
      @ilovegunsandhuntingandradi5912 2 года назад +1

      @@Elena-xl5dc Wtf

    • @Tron-Jockey
      @Tron-Jockey 2 года назад +6

      @@ilovegunsandhuntingandradi5912 - I think Elena is a русская продавец змеиного масла или извращенец

    • @brendanvanbiljon3861
      @brendanvanbiljon3861 2 года назад +1

      @@Elena-xl5dc Elena, please remove your spam comments. We didn't come here for sex. We didn't come here to satisfy our fleshly desires. No, we came here for something much more precious than that...intellectual stimulation. Intellectual content from this great channel and conversations with like minded individuals who want to explore. Explore, not matters of the bedroom, but of the mind.
      Yes, we are animals with sexual drives which likes to see boobs from time to time, but we are not just animals. We are more than that, seeking to know why.
      So please, get your filthy porn adverts out of here.

  • @25lover25
    @25lover25 2 года назад +977

    nothing makes you feel dumber than when joe says "now you've probably heard of this before" and you haven't heard of it before...

  • @CartoonHero1986
    @CartoonHero1986 2 года назад +36

    Ever seen the meme about "Planet of the 'slow burning'"? It was one of those existential joke memes to explain why aliens might avoid Earth because we are all slowly burning and breathing poison like some kind of freaky demons lol

    • @dominicthompson82
      @dominicthompson82 2 года назад

      Can you send me an example? That sounds cool but I'm not seeing anything

    • @zach....
      @zach.... 2 года назад +8

      @@dominicthompson82 The way I've heard, and retold it -- Imagine an alien ship exploring and passing by our planet. Some of our space travel technology, which would likely be primitive to the aliens, uses a hydrogen and oxygen as fuel in a reaction to cause combustion and thrust. This process also combines the hydrogen and oxygen and makes water as a byproduct of the reaction.
      So these aliens show up, scan the planet, and notice sentient creatures breathing in one part of primitive rocket fuel (oxygen) as a requirement for life, and then drinking the fuel byproducts (water) as a further requirement for life. Continuing the examination, the entire planet seems to be growing on the rotting dead of the generations that lived before it. And these sentient creatures seem to cultivate the mass of rot by pouring rocket fuel byproducts on it, and then eating the fruits that grow.
      Just a terrifying sight of fuel huffing cannibals. and this is the answer to the fermi paradox. we're gross.

    • @gamingcreatesworlddd2425
      @gamingcreatesworlddd2425 2 года назад

      @@zach.... every civilization have ups and downs those aliens will also have transformed from gross similar beings to idk technologically advanced beings

  • @unexpectedbagel6164
    @unexpectedbagel6164 2 года назад +60

    “It’s probably a big mistake.” Did Joe just reference Douglas Adams? Love me some Hitchiker’s Guide.

    • @lisamarie06
      @lisamarie06 2 года назад +4

      Same! And in two days, I'll be 42.

    • @unexpectedbagel6164
      @unexpectedbagel6164 2 года назад +3

      @@lisamarie06 I was 42 last year. Nice.

    • @lindaseel8633
      @lindaseel8633 2 года назад +3

      Happy birthday ( even belated ) to the both of you.

    • @unexpectedbagel6164
      @unexpectedbagel6164 2 года назад +2

      @@lindaseel8633 44 is coming up a month after Christmas. So thank you!

    • @lindaseel8633
      @lindaseel8633 2 года назад +1

      @@unexpectedbagel6164 You are welcome. 🎂🎂🎂

  • @stevenhetzel6483
    @stevenhetzel6483 2 года назад +137

    Joe you claimed all elements heavier than Hydrogen and Helium are created in supernova, that's not true. Stars can form up to Iron through fusion, anything heavier than *that* requires supernova.

    • @ranjaxwolf9725
      @ranjaxwolf9725 2 года назад +14

      Or a neutron star collision

    • @15xgg80
      @15xgg80 2 года назад +10

      you must be fun at parties

    • @_davidp
      @_davidp 2 года назад +2

      And Uranium is known to be the heaviest naturally occuring element. Humans are resonsible for making Plutonium!

    • @inventor15
      @inventor15 2 года назад +3

      The genesis project in the 90's proved that solar flaring produces all elements up to lead.

    • @anshi5098
      @anshi5098 2 года назад +11

      @@15xgg80 you're on the wrong channel. You'll only find nerds here.

  • @StuffandThings_
    @StuffandThings_ 2 года назад +33

    Oxygen is one of the most electronegative and reactive elements out there. Its like evolving to thrive in fluorine or something. Kinda crazy when you think about it like that.

    • @paavobergmann4920
      @paavobergmann4920 2 года назад +4

      yup, cyanobacteria very nearly killed off life as a whole, they barely made the evolutionary race to adapt to rising levels of their own waste.....Now there´s an example to learn from!

  • @colliersmith5499
    @colliersmith5499 2 года назад +43

    So poetic and then starts talking about “bacteria farts”

  • @christopherhall5361
    @christopherhall5361 2 года назад +134

    People bad at chemistry: "Oxygen is flammable"
    Me: *Slap* "NO IT'S NOT"

    • @Lethgar_Smith
      @Lethgar_Smith 2 года назад +27

      Oxygen alone cant fuel a fire but it is a necessary component to the combustion process and a pure oxygen environment significantly increases the reaction rate of a fire and can lead to an explosion This gives it the appearance of "flammability".

    • @themeanestkitten
      @themeanestkitten 2 года назад +6

      The Oxygen tanks have been lying to us all this time!😱

    • @thoughtsofapeer
      @thoughtsofapeer 2 года назад +3

      @@Lethgar_Smith You don't need oxygen to feed fusion. Maybe the sun is not on fire after all

    • @lucasbiermann257
      @lucasbiermann257 2 года назад

      @@thoughtsofapeer well fire is plasma right? since it reacts to magnets and all

    • @user-zn4pw5nk2v
      @user-zn4pw5nk2v 2 года назад +1

      Being "Flammable" is oxidation and releasing energy,
      So mono atomic oxygen is "Technically flammable". The creation of ozone needs energy (as far as i know) so that isn't, unless you use O4(if it can be created) in which case it should be?? I think i found it oxygen is flammable , you just need O4!(Ooor maybe not)

  • @holdmeclosertonydanza22
    @holdmeclosertonydanza22 2 года назад +4

    Your hosting skills were always good, but it's been so fun to watch them evolve to where they are now. Your scripts are fluid, your jokes land most of the time, your hosting personality is developing beautifully, and you're really hitting your stride.

  • @theonetruemadao5207
    @theonetruemadao5207 2 года назад +31

    You can heal 5 times more quickly in a hyperbaric chamber at 100% oxygen and 3x atmospheric pressure.

    • @codename495
      @codename495 2 года назад +10

      You can heal faster, because the high oxygen is literally pushing your metabolic functions faster. Living is a metabolic function with a finite span, so you’re healing a little bit faster while you’re in there but you’re dying a little bit faster too.

    • @theonetruemadao5207
      @theonetruemadao5207 2 года назад +11

      @@codename495 high pressure saturates your body enough so that it is absorbed by your plasma, this allows your blood to carry it far more effectively to oxygen starved cells (cells that are damaged). The high concentration of blood plasma stimulates the mitochondria in your cells and attracts stem cells which further increases healing. They use hyperbaric treatments on burn victims and radiation wounds, because it increases collagen and skin cell growth. There hss even been a study done in israel that found that hyperbaric treatment increased telomere length and decreased senescence cell concentration (cells damage by oxygen damage). The study had positive results and now rich people are queuing up to get their possible longevity treatment.

    • @theonetruemadao5207
      @theonetruemadao5207 2 года назад

      @@codename495 LeBron rents a hyperbaric tank to help him recover after training and I read that Justin Bieber sleeps in one.

    • @edgregory1
      @edgregory1 2 года назад

      Especially burn injury.

    • @yancgc5098
      @yancgc5098 Год назад

      I think I prefer slower healing over getting lung damage from oxygen toxicity

  • @ChessMasterNate
    @ChessMasterNate 2 года назад +4

    Human aging is a heck of a lot more complicated. In fact, they have found that higher pressure oxygen in a hyperbaric chamber can extend telomeres in the blood, likely extending life. Quantum tunneling as a result of the heat producing bonds that otherwise are not energy favorable is a major source of aging (by probability, several photons of heat energy concentrate in a localized area providing the energy for the damaging reaction which is more common at higher body temperature). This is why most of the organisms that outlive us are colder than we are. We can't just choose to be cold, and live longer, though. We have enzymes that are required for even the most basic cellular operations, such as the reactions in mitochondria that produce ATP. Those other organisms have different enzymes. So they can endure internal temperatures that would kill us.
    And while this is a major form of aging, it is just one of several. We accumulate a protein called Glucosepane. It is a lysine-arginine protein cross-linking product and advanced glycation end product (AGE) derived from D-glucose. This makes a mess of collagen in our bodies over time. The other AGEs, as long as we produce and ingest relatively small amounts (by avoiding things cooked at high temperature, whipped, churned, ground or otherwise processed at high speed by machine, or fermented, and by having ample vitamins) can be processed by the liver (as long as the liver stays healthy) and expelled by the body. This Glucosepane crap could probably kill you just by itself, by stiffening tissue, so much that it no longer functions.
    Then there are toxins that accumulate in your blood. That can be removed by plasmaphereses. But who does that just to clean their blood?
    Then there are changes to molecules that connect to our DNA. This methylation aging we have no way to reverse without killing you...yet. And if we could turn back that clock, how would we do it uniformly? What happens when you have cells that all think they are different ages?
    The ends of chromosomes shorten with every cellular division. When the chromosome ends (telomeres) reach the end, the cells can no longer divide, but more than that, they can become nasty. They can start to gorge themselves eating other cells, and spewing chemicals that kills and harms other cells. These senescent cells also accumulate as more and more cells run into their division limit (Hayflick limit). There are things we can do to reduce the number of these things like periodic fasting or near fasting, and taking senolytics like quercetin and fisetin periodically, but it is almost certainly a loosing battle. Mitochondria can also go bad making a mess and killing cells accelerating divisions to replace those damaged cells, which makes more cells run into that division limit. Though, it is possible to refresh your mitochondria by doing very unpleasant HIIT (high intensity interval training) exercise very regularly. And while hyperbaric oxygen and a few molecules we have found can extend telomeres...that is probably limited to the immune system and the blood. Anything further reaching, probably would require genetic modification.

  • @ryconroleplays
    @ryconroleplays 2 года назад +64

    Holy crap haha I was second camera on Nigel Blows Stuff up. Happy to see it having a second life on Curiosity

    • @Ahad_Faisal
      @Ahad_Faisal 2 года назад

      RYCON I WATCHED ALL YOUR KENSHI ROLEPLAY VIDEOS!

    • @acl61
      @acl61 2 года назад +1

      Ha! The lightning episode was filmed in my high voltage lab. Nigel got so many electric shocks.

    • @laurawoodward3046
      @laurawoodward3046 2 года назад

      Random. I thought he was a child psychologist?!

    • @ryconroleplays
      @ryconroleplays 2 года назад

      @@laurawoodward3046 yeah he is but he's done a bit of science communication too

  • @joshmellon390
    @joshmellon390 2 года назад +74

    Dude I fucking love this channel. Some of you guys deserve to be nominated in some of these yearly awards shows. Like, your decapitation video; That should receive an award lol. Fuckin' great work Joe, great work.

    • @MountainFisher
      @MountainFisher 2 года назад

      Not a really good job, it was a piss poor history of life on this planet lesson. I'm a retired biologist/engineer and the oldest confirmed fossils of life are the stromatolite fossil beds in Australia over 3.5 billion years old. Cyanobacteria that is photosynthetic made the stromatolites, a prokaryote bacteria. Nothing much before that 3.5 billion year line is confirmed and is always possible a natural process made the fossils like the so called Life fossil in the Mars meteorite. It looks like it might be life, but it is too small and could be a simple calcite evaporite.
      Did you also not see the big contradiction? He said the other way for oxygen to be created is for sunlight to shine on water vapor and water has been on Earth for at least 4 billion year and longer so for millions of years there has been some oxygen in the atmosphere. Oh! Don't forget lightning tearing H2O apart as well. That eliminates life forming processes as there is an oxidizing processes going on. Also almost half the Earth's crust is oxygen in the form of silicates. The lithosphere is 46.6% oxygen by volume present mainly as silica minerals (SiO2) and other oxide minerals.
      According to geologists the so called primordial soup never existed. Of course there really isn't any natural processes that can form life in nature except life. Life only comes from Life. Only a metaphysical assumption says Life can come from non-Life.

    • @yxzuk9214
      @yxzuk9214 2 года назад +1

      @@MountainFisher deez nuts

    • @MountainFisher
      @MountainFisher 2 года назад

      @@yxzuk9214 What is that supposed to mean?

    • @reubennichols644
      @reubennichols644 2 года назад

      -
      - - - Soooooooooooo M a n y
      " " Comments " " within . . . just . . .
      . . . 2 4 hours . G R E A T Job
      - - J o e - - at Arousing Curiosity . . .
      . . . Peaking Peoples Interests ---
      --- & --- Educating The Masses .
      I L O V E A L L Your videos . . .
      . . . even the B A D ones (( heh -
      - heh - - - j o k e )) . The H U G E
      Range of subject matter that you
      are willing to touch upon .
      - - - B R I L L I A N T - - -
      . . . A N D . . . Far More Importantly . . .
      . . . Delightfully E n t e r t a i n i n g .
      -

    • @davidanderson_surrey_bc
      @davidanderson_surrey_bc 2 года назад

      Seriously, Joe? You pinned this vulgar remark?

  • @davidanderson_surrey_bc
    @davidanderson_surrey_bc 2 года назад +4

    Lots of oxygen: Will kill me in about 80 years.
    No oxygen: Will kill me in about 80 seconds.

  • @sky.the.infinite
    @sky.the.infinite 2 года назад +1

    “I’m not talking about that immanent feeling of doom… (relatable smirk of disparaging truth) although it’s there.”
    GOLD.

  • @benjaminbutson1873
    @benjaminbutson1873 2 года назад +1

    Im impressed the way you explained resperation was very concise as a trainee nurse I can say yoy nailed it with more clarity than my lectures

  • @Yasen6275
    @Yasen6275 2 года назад +20

    For one not paying attention in chemistry classes, you've got it right and mostly complete. The only thing I'd like to add is that oxygen molecule is free radical too.

    • @wulf2121
      @wulf2121 2 года назад +1

      no, its not. in an oxygen molecule each oxygen atom has 6 electrons + 2 shared electrons, which gives it a shell of 8. But the bond is less stable than oxygen to something else, which makes it so reactive (but still less reactive than a true free radical).
      Or perhaps you meant a single oxygen atom is a free radical, too?

    • @Yasen6275
      @Yasen6275 2 года назад

      For the knowledge that was relevant before quantum mechanics, what are you telling is true. But knowledge has evolved since then. Check wiki page for radials and especially diradicals.

    • @wulf2121
      @wulf2121 2 года назад

      @@Yasen6275 Ok, interesting, so it would be technically more correct to write ·O-O· for the structure of O2 instead of O=O like its commonly written, since the first one is actually the more stable form according to wikipedia.

    • @ElectronFieldPulse
      @ElectronFieldPulse 2 года назад +1

      @@wulf2121 - What? From my organic chem classes which were admittedly 15 years ago, oxygen molecules form with a double bond. Pi orbitals merge to create a common pi2 orbital that have 2 electrons in it. You are saying that the oxygen molecule instead has an unpaired electron on each atom that doesn't create a shared orbital? How is that thermodynamically more stable than a shared orbital?

    • @Yasen6275
      @Yasen6275 2 года назад

      ​@@ElectronFieldPulse I'm afraid that classes you were given 15 years ago were outdated even then. With about 50 years, if I remember correctly. Pi and different sp orbitals are good pedagogical tools for beginners in organic chemistry. But they are mostly misleading when one must comprehend implications of quantum mechanics in electron energy levels of molecules.
      1. Thermodynamics has nothing to do with electrons, there energy levels in atoms and molecules.
      2. All atom orbitals are more or less transformed when atoms became part of molecule. Newly formed molecule orbitals that are more or less covering the whole of molecule. In case of the O2 molecule these unpaired electrons are on two molecule orbitals enveloping both atoms. And these orbitals have equal energy.
      To blow your mind even more these two orbitals have energy levels higher than any atom orbital in oxygen atom.

  • @Stacey0909
    @Stacey0909 2 года назад +5

    Love, Love, Love ....your content & sense of humor ✨
    💖🙏💕

  • @Hexamath
    @Hexamath 2 года назад +1

    WOW that intro is already amazing. Well done!

  • @kevinrasmussen1748
    @kevinrasmussen1748 2 года назад +1

    You nailed the location of "That video" this time. Been waiting for that to happen. nice.

  • @Zatticzattic
    @Zatticzattic 2 года назад +4

    I feel you on the drawing in chemistry class instead of paying attention. I made a flip book out of an entire book of post it notes instead of paying attention. Still passed somehow, and I still have the flip book, so thats something

    • @ElDJReturn
      @ElDJReturn 2 года назад

      Thats such a Win Win

  • @andreask.2675
    @andreask.2675 2 года назад +11

    "They can hold our attention as well as any TV show"??? Well not the ones with the 24/7 fireplace! :'D

  • @nickkopelgaming
    @nickkopelgaming 2 года назад

    I found this channel a week or two ago and I just keep binging it, watching for hours at a time. I love every video and I think I found my crack.

  • @Erchyful
    @Erchyful 2 года назад

    I love his simple way of explaining, adding a joke or two and talking on a normal volume (no shouting like some). Thank Joe! Keep it up 👍 👏👏

  • @JamesSchriever
    @JamesSchriever 2 года назад +18

    There is actually a fourth requirement for fire: Pressure.

    • @stephaanjacques2269
      @stephaanjacques2269 2 года назад

      very good point sir

    • @jobr1751
      @jobr1751 2 года назад +2

      pressure from air... that contains the oxygen, yes.

    • @Tubeytime
      @Tubeytime 2 года назад

      There's actually actually a fifth requirement for fire: The Higgs Field.

  • @Sephiroth36977
    @Sephiroth36977 2 года назад +10

    For years when someone asked how I was doing I would answer "Still breathing, haven't managed to kick that nasty oxygen habit yet!" This video taught me just how scientifically correct that statement was.
    Also, this was the best explanation of "free radicals" and anti-oxidants. I wanted Chemistry in high school science but was placed in Anatomy which was no where as interesting to me...

  • @cricketman7335
    @cricketman7335 2 года назад +2

    0:32 - 0:39 ... I'd love to know where that particular stock video of burning wood can be found! So calming, yet invigorating at the same time. Perfect Zen viewing on a digital display.

  • @chucktierney1386
    @chucktierney1386 2 года назад

    Always a good show Joe!!

  • @adrianspickler391
    @adrianspickler391 2 года назад +7

    I love your channel. Keep up the good work. It is also interesting in an "Oxygen is killing you" video to mention Oxygen Toxicity in Scuba Diving. This is where high pressure causes oxygen to be even more toxic. That and Nitrogen Narcosis ends up requiring a third gas, helium, to help keep from dying. See trimix diving and partial-pressures-of-oxygen for details.

  • @RealStuntPanda
    @RealStuntPanda 2 года назад +24

    My chemistry professor loved to tell this joke, "How can you tell oxygen is a trollop? It'll bond with anything."

    • @fredbloggs5902
      @fredbloggs5902 2 года назад +4

      If he told that joke today, he’d be immediately hounded and eventually fired by mobs of twitterati lefty SJWs.

    • @thomashiggins9320
      @thomashiggins9320 2 года назад +10

      @@fredbloggs5902 Sigh.
      Crawl back under your rock.
      No "lefty" would care about such an innocuous joke.
      Real abuse and discrimination take up all their time.

    • @fredbloggs5902
      @fredbloggs5902 2 года назад +3

      @@thomashiggins9320 Your claim is provenly a lie, but stay in you bubble, eventually they’ll come for you.

    • @iamcyber
      @iamcyber 2 года назад +9

      @@fredbloggs5902 ur stuck in a right wing bubble and still think people who are just leftists are 'crazy radical SJWs" grow up

    • @fredbloggs5902
      @fredbloggs5902 2 года назад +1

      @@iamcyber
      Professor Ned Lebow

  • @rootdefault6263
    @rootdefault6263 2 года назад +1

    All I can say is don't stop doing what you do Joe. It's a lot of work to digest years of research but your helping soo many people be more aware. (the emoji looks like am flipping you off but am not LOL! it's a thumbs up.)

  • @lucidmoses
    @lucidmoses 2 года назад

    Nice no-nonsense description of the process. Nicely done.

  • @Sigma00000
    @Sigma00000 2 года назад +12

    I loved all the random jokes, mentions of existential dread, spontaneous "woo woo", and how the cyanobacteria made the worst mistake bringing about humans. Love your sense of humor

    • @john-ic5pz
      @john-ic5pz 5 месяцев назад

      I'm not encouraging you to self harm. I just don't understand why folks who say humans are a virus or a mistake or cancer don't contribute to correcting the "mistake" and take themselves out. rather, they whinge about it on social media.
      can you enlighten me about this strange phenomenon?

  • @fredbloggs5902
    @fredbloggs5902 2 года назад +14

    The humans who got bored watching the fire and wandered off...
    ...got eaten by lions, tigers and bears.
    Evolution in action.

  • @infoscholar5221
    @infoscholar5221 2 года назад

    Great stuff, Joe. You're inspiration to my own meagre, fledgling channel.

  • @the_curiosity_project
    @the_curiosity_project 2 года назад +1

    Just learned about this in Biology. I didn't understand any of it until this video. Thanks joe

  • @Games_and_Music
    @Games_and_Music 2 года назад +8

    Ren & Stimpy made me aware of the effect of oxygen, albeit viewed from a somewhat different angle, haha, but it did start making me think about oxygen in general.
    It's really just a bad joke, but here goes:
    Muddy Mudskipper to Stimpy: "Ever breathe oxygen son?"
    Stimpy: *_inhales to respond_*
    Muddy: "Good, don't start! Me? I'm hooked! Get it?" (because he's a fish, although he's a lungfish..)
    Stimpy: *_inhales another time to respond_*
    Muddy: "Shut up!"

    • @alphagt62
      @alphagt62 2 года назад +1

      Muddy: “Ya lousy bum”

    • @Games_and_Music
      @Games_and_Music 2 года назад +1

      @@alphagt62 haha

    • @alphagt62
      @alphagt62 2 года назад +1

      @@Games_and_Music Muddy was my favorite side character! I worked for a cigar chewing old man who was just like him when I was young.

  • @Endrw
    @Endrw 2 года назад +14

    can't wait for all the people watching to start breathing manually because of this video

    • @alidamullakkara
      @alidamullakkara 2 года назад

      Omg yeah. This made me conscious about my breathing xD

    • @KorsarNek
      @KorsarNek 2 года назад

      I did just after reading your comment...

    • @CT-um7zq
      @CT-um7zq 2 года назад +1

      Try getting really ill🤧 I never, EVER, gave a thought to my respiratory pattern, until I got sick and I had to consciously breathe.
      At one point you get tired and your O2 drops like motherfucker. You can't even sleep because it sends you O2 into the 60s. Scariest week of my life, altho not as scary as the hospital bill, which is why I didn't go to one.
      Somehow I survived and now have PTSD. I can't see anyone sniff or cough near me, without me getting the Lysol aerosol bottle out of my bag and aim it their way. Either to spray them or hit them over the head for spreading the plage, it's a matter of how lucky they get.

  • @carpemkarzi
    @carpemkarzi 2 года назад

    Best way to start the week. Thanks Joe

  • @leslieshaw1421
    @leslieshaw1421 2 года назад

    Man, all the drawing I do and I can’t get good at it either! I so felt you when you said that. Luv ur show. Thanks Joe and google.

  • @anonymoose9315
    @anonymoose9315 2 года назад +5

    “Ain’t no air in space”

    “There’s an Air in Space Museum.”

    • @kangarooninja2594
      @kangarooninja2594 2 года назад +1

      *Air and Space Museum

    • @joshua43214
      @joshua43214 2 года назад

      @@kangarooninja2594 Sarchasm: The gulf that lies between those that got it, and those that don't.

  • @Benson_aka_devils_advocate_88
    @Benson_aka_devils_advocate_88 2 года назад +4

    My buddy had an oxygen bottle for welding with an advisory sticker on it warning of the increased risk of cancer from inhaling it. It's a good thing us humans aren't dependant on oxygen when going about our daily lives!

  • @BenjaminKibbey
    @BenjaminKibbey 2 года назад +1

    I love how you explained the role of oxidizers. Fire in all its forms is truly fascinating.
    However, in the interest of being pedantic, because everyone loves pedants, smoke is actually the product of incomplete combustion, which means, simplistically, that there is more fuel than the oxygen required for complete combustion at that temperature. In other words, smoke is fuel, and combustible in a similar manner to propane or natural gas. It's why if you come on a building that you believe is on fire and a room appears to be filled with smoke when you look through the windows, you NEVER break that window, because the only thing missing from that room being a giant inferno is more oxygen.
    In contrast, if you ever look into "rocket" stoves that some permies use, they have to be super, super careful about carbon monoxide because the more complete combustion produces no visible smoke. In other words, you could have a chimney leak with a normal fireplace and likely catch it due to the smoky room, but with a rocket stove, you just die from the CO if you don't have a detector.

  • @charlesgichard9864
    @charlesgichard9864 2 года назад +1

    When you said "let's start with what we already know..." and that catchy drum and bass riff started, it was just like when I have to think about stuff I already know about. Do do do do do, I already know this, I don't have to learn right now, do do do do do

  • @mignonthon
    @mignonthon 2 года назад +3

    “A light that burns twice as bright burns half as long” - Dr. Eldon Tyrell

    • @SofaKingShit
      @SofaKingShit 2 года назад

      "Feel the burn". Some idiot.

  • @john_michael_white
    @john_michael_white 2 года назад +3

    Fascinating video! Learning about how the body uses Oxygen, and it's journey after we breath it in, is all the more remarkable when you think how constant that process needs to be. If it stops for even a matter of minutes our human body and all that we are will break beyond repair. Oxygen is also one of the best examples of how brilliantly messy evolution can be. The very thing that's vital to our lives can also be the thing that kills us...so long as it mostly takes its time doing so.

  • @FinalPattern11
    @FinalPattern11 2 года назад

    The burger closer was nothing short of brilliant. Timing - perfection

  • @austinharper1
    @austinharper1 2 года назад

    Thank you for reading my mind. This is the exact video I was looking for. Bless your soul if we have one

  • @cibarra294
    @cibarra294 2 года назад +8

    Joe, I wanted to be a smart fella.
    But society made me a fart smella.

  • @stevenhetzel6483
    @stevenhetzel6483 2 года назад +4

    Since you're a Texas native I'd love to see you get into the psychology of the maniacs passing Draconian laws successfully in 2021.

    • @EntyFu
      @EntyFu 2 года назад +2

      Isn't religion (good vs evil, god vs devil, do the "right" thing or ELSE, etc...) the construct that fuel these maniacs?

    • @EntyFu
      @EntyFu 2 года назад

      @Frugal Family Living Any and all religion (defined "a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith") Oh definitely Christianity. Religion will be the death of USA. We need to separate the sheeple from the government and mandate separation of state from religion. I'm glad the younger generations believe in facts which can be verified rather than faith. Science isn't a religion, it's a peer reviewed process.

  • @AuthorTimmy
    @AuthorTimmy 2 года назад

    That was your best open Joe!

  • @Stang_Gang_8
    @Stang_Gang_8 2 года назад +1

    This video reminded me of my research on the fork-head transcription factors, which I wrote my senior thesis for my BS in biology on. I was looking into genes that promote longevity of life. Essentially the fork-head transcription factors are proteins which are active when your body is in a basal state and they function in cleaning out free radicals and fix denatured proteins. I would suggest looking into it, might give you a great video topic.

  • @Pettingson
    @Pettingson 2 года назад

    Damn Joe. This episode is on a "Vsauce, Michael here" kind of level how it brings us back and fourth teaching so much different things that have with eachother to do :D Much love!

  • @dallas4914
    @dallas4914 2 года назад +1

    Your background reminds me of an eye spy book ! Love it

  • @m_xh.9628
    @m_xh.9628 2 года назад

    Great start :)

  • @haffa777
    @haffa777 2 года назад

    This introduction was really nice!

  • @sinebar
    @sinebar 2 года назад +1

    My chemistry teacher in engineering school described fire as rapid oxidation that is so fast it produces enough heat to create plasma.

  • @dillonphillips313
    @dillonphillips313 2 года назад

    Never realized. Thanks, Joe!

  • @jaysav2248
    @jaysav2248 2 года назад

    Like always, you made it interesting.

  • @EdEmJuPe
    @EdEmJuPe 2 года назад

    Good intro, Joe.
    I hope you do more cool intros like that in the future.

  • @SlashRfnR
    @SlashRfnR 2 года назад +1

    I like seeing Joe staring into the abyss while contemplating about wise oxygen

  • @davidbanks1230
    @davidbanks1230 2 года назад

    Hey Joe! Love your work!! Can you do a video on "Popular ways one can manage their existential dread without therapy."

  • @tobi_versace
    @tobi_versace 2 года назад +1

    The intro was great!!!

  • @bradleydick8183
    @bradleydick8183 2 года назад

    One of your best intros yet. Bravo.

  • @starria_8744
    @starria_8744 2 года назад +1

    admittedly, this video makes me scared to breathe..but nonetheless it's awesome! my friend recommended me to you joe, and now i cant stop watching!

  • @stufromoz8164
    @stufromoz8164 2 года назад +1

    Thank you Prometheus we appreciate what you went through for us.

  • @bigeatah_official
    @bigeatah_official 2 года назад

    I love you Joe, you’ve taught me a lot, like sure your not a scientist store historian or crime expert but you hand us Knowledge and give us things to look at to help us not only widen our minds and intellect view, but help us grow and not be in a little bubble and toss out things we don’t like. Thank you Joe

  • @koun582
    @koun582 2 года назад +1

    Now that was one hell of an introduction 😭👌🏾

  • @anthonyinzerillo3882
    @anthonyinzerillo3882 2 года назад

    Love the science stuff, but Joe's weird & history topics are great.

  • @lostintime8651
    @lostintime8651 2 года назад

    Thanks Joe. I needed the nap.

    • @lostintime8651
      @lostintime8651 2 года назад

      You pronounced Humanin incorrectly. Or maybe I just nodded off.

  • @smudlicko
    @smudlicko 2 года назад +1

    super educational funny...thank you

  • @davemccombs
    @davemccombs 2 года назад +1

    I'm already subbed but damn, I just realized that "the future of war," "heavy industry in space," "6 historical figures/not existing," etc is the perfect blend of scatterbrained nerd shit that I feed off of, lol. I love that it's part standard fare science-y channel, but also a dip into some appreciative history. Having fun with some of the latest vids!
    I think the high sub count yet very modest feel is welcoming. Keep that flavor!
    And make the next one WEIRD.
    Cheers :)

  • @marinagimenezleal
    @marinagimenezleal 2 года назад +1

    Seeing a morbid tittle on Joe's channel never fails to make me smile :)

  • @brianbb177
    @brianbb177 2 года назад

    i love the intro. great sense of humor

  • @kiwibonsai2355
    @kiwibonsai2355 2 года назад +1

    Nigels docs are awesome, he's the man for waking up those that are blind to the facts. Cool to hear the shout out. 🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿

  • @fredchevalier2333
    @fredchevalier2333 2 года назад

    5:05-5:11 Thank your! I have ask myself these questions a lot and am too lazy to do the required research to fully understand why

  • @johnwhite7927
    @johnwhite7927 2 года назад

    You let me down Joe. I was waiting for a jump scare for that entire intro. 🤣

  • @oscarraygoza4350
    @oscarraygoza4350 2 года назад

    And there's nothing better than having breakfast while watching Joe's video and relax until you go to work

  • @chriswood572
    @chriswood572 2 года назад +1

    My other favorite RUclipsrs , SECURETEAM and Missing 411/ Cansm Missing Project. You had a show on addiction once. Great show. The sub skit was great. Every skit you do is always funny .

  • @jaysav2248
    @jaysav2248 2 года назад

    Gonna need to watch that one again. THANKS JOE! Biochemistry, not my field. It is now, THANKS JOE!

  • @jgr7487
    @jgr7487 2 года назад

    that was a hell of a cold opening, Joe

  • @aboomination897
    @aboomination897 2 года назад

    Thx for reminding me, Joe.

  • @Orangefootcat
    @Orangefootcat 2 года назад +2

    1:05 is the plot of dark souls in one sentence

  • @ivanleon6164
    @ivanleon6164 2 года назад

    1:22 i totally tought you were about to say social media kills you slowly when the icons appeared, lol, I really thought it.

  • @hanzcraftcz
    @hanzcraftcz 2 года назад

    6:23 I'm listening to this why sketching some things for my architecture lecture :-D

  • @glazierblue573
    @glazierblue573 Год назад

    Wow... you just cheered me up no end. Thanks. Lol

  • @KrazyMO
    @KrazyMO 2 года назад

    You’re literally one of a few RUclipsrs I can watch at normal speed. That’s a compliment fyi.

    • @jackd1582
      @jackd1582 2 года назад

      He mustn't be from the south

  • @chrisrigoni
    @chrisrigoni 2 года назад

    Thanks!

  • @Thehatedartist
    @Thehatedartist 2 года назад

    You crack me up 🤣 Made my day, thank you.

  • @davidanderson_surrey_bc
    @davidanderson_surrey_bc 2 года назад +1

    Today's episode was a breath of fresh air.

  • @devonjamesj
    @devonjamesj 2 года назад

    Oh, Hello Darkness. Nice to see you again. So nice of you to return these crisis’ to my mind.

  • @renaldocargill3800
    @renaldocargill3800 2 года назад

    I found this out years ago when I was in elementary school! And by God! My mind was blown for like a week!