The intellectual beat down in this thread is priceless.
The intellectual beat down in this thread is priceless.
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OP, you remind me of those folks who look at a study about neutron stars and say, "Well, neutron stars are hundreds light years away. They are irrelevant. What does this study matter?" It matters a great deal. While this information in itself might not have any practical applications, it helps us understand how the world works better, and it lead to unexpected advances in other seemingly unrelated fields.
It is a non issue, at least for the time being, considering they said it only went down by about .7% in 800,000 years. No matter where you go in the world, the % of oxygen in the air is 21. The actual amount of oxygen decreases as the altitude increases. To compensate for that, our bodies create more red blood cells, and therefore more hemoglobin (the thing that carries oxygen around our blood stream to the rest of our body) the longer you stay at high altitudes. You can go from sea level, or even lower (where the actual amount of oxygen is greater) to Mount Everest and survive. You may struggle a bit for a couple of weeks as your body creates more red blood cells and hemoglobin, but eventually you can oxygenate efficiently.
The point I'm trying to make is, don't panic and act like we're running out of oxygen. While the O2 level going down isn't great, it isn't going down fast enough for us to notice. We have more than enough time to find a way to send the oxygen level in the other direction before we, or even our grandchildren see the effects. The first people to be effected by this would be people living in high altitudes. And they would either adapt or move to a lower altitude.
What?! There are buzzwords in this article?! Better get my outrage pants on and act offended without understanding a single word beyond what's buzzing!
Pretty disturbing findings if you ask me.
as the atmosphere thins it happens
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He chooses not to believe random articles on the internet or trust scientists he knows nothing about and you automatically think hes not the intellectual type? At least he's not a complete sheep I say!
A decline in oxygen over that "timescale" (so that I can sound intellectual like the first troll to reply) can piss off. Human species might even adapt to less oxygen over that period of time.
It's that narrow minded thinking that keeps us from really reaching our true intelligence.
He 100% misunderstood the article and ranted about something the article wasn't about. Of course he's not the intellectual type, unless intellectual types are keen on speaking about something they utterly failed to comprehend.
He didn't put any real thought into it. He saw buzzwords and assumed he knew what it was about.
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