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Today we’ll be looking to answer what would happen if we lost oxygen for an hour.
I can tell you right now, it’s a bad look for everyone and everything.
Humans, buildings, animals, the earth.
It would be a bad time for all.
And let’s figure out why.
Well for starters, obviously, we need oxygen to breath.
Most human’s can only go so long without it.
If you’re lucky, maybe you can go a minute.
Some even longer.
But no one, and I mean absolutely no one, can live without oxygen for an hour.
Meaning inevitably, we’d all die with oxygen for an hour.
No surprise there right guys?
Welcome to LBQ.
I’m kidding.
Not really.
But that’s not all.
Aside from us pretty much choking to death, even though we’d lose consciousness before
we died technically, our ears would also pop.
And by pop, I mean explode.
It would hurt a lot.
You know when you go on an airplane, or take an elevator down from the 50th floor, and
sometimes your ears feel clogged in a sense?
That’s because of the change in air pressure.
If we lost all oxygen, we would lose approximately 21% of the air pressure instantly, and our
ears would not be able to adjust to that very quickly.
Meaning they’d pretty much explode.
Very, very painful.
Now while all of this is going on, our skin would also be burning to a crisp.
This is because oxygen actually makes up the ozone, which blocks out some of the UV rays.
Think of it this way.
On a very sunny day, without any sunscreen, you can still get a pretty bad burn.
Imagine that times 100.
Our ozone absorbs more than 99 percent of UV-C rays, 90 percent of the UV-B rays and
50 percent of UV-A rays.
If we didn’t have anything blocking us from the rays, in this case, the ozone which is
made up of oxygen, the sun would absolutely burn us alive.
But between the bad sun burn and our ears popping, we’d only be in pain maybe for
30 seconds.
Albeit the most excruciating pain, most of us will lose consciousness from the lack of
oxygen, that is if we don’t lose consciousness from the pain we’re already enduring.
Then again, with such a sudden drop in oxygen, our body’s would go into shock.
All of our cells would die.
So our death could also possibly be instantaneous.
Isn’t this fun guys?
Well guess what, there’s plenty more to cover.
All the skies will most likely turn black.
Not due to clouds, but because there would be fewer oxygen molecules to spread out blue
light.
So we’d still get burnt alive, even though the sky would most likely be completely black.
If that’s not scary enough for you, all planes, cars, and really anything with an
engine would stop working as well.
It can’t burn fuel, therefore, down they go.
Between the cars suddenly stopping, planes falling out of the black sky, us having the
inside of our ears burst and of course being burnt alive, surely that would be the end
of it right?
Ha, what a joke.
No chance.
It get’s way worse guys.
Way worse.
Anything made up of concrete would pretty much turn to dust.
As in almost every building, the sidewalks, floors, bridges, you get the idea.
Just gone.
This is due to the fact that oxygen binds concrete structures together.
Speaking of binding, any metals in contact would instantly become welded to each other.
Normally metal is coated in a later of oxidation.
But without oxygen, the metal would immediately weld together.
So between the building crumbling to dusts, planes falling from the sky, the sun, it’s
quite evident we need oxygen.
I think it goes without saying that any living thing, plants, animals, really anything that
thrives off of oxygen would die as well.
From your dog, to the squirrel running across the street, which I guess wouldn’t exist
anymore anyway because of the whole concrete dust thing.
All animals would unfortunately have a grim fate.
But what about the fish in the ocean?
Or any creature living in the ocean?
Surely, they’d be okay right?
C’mon guys what do you think this is?
Life’s Happiest Ending?
You’re watching Life’s Biggest Questions so you know damn well what happens to all
the fish.
They die.
That’s because the ocean’s would also evaporate.
Talk about a rough day.
Then again none of the above would really matter all that much when all is said and
done.
The earth’s crust and mantle is made up of about 45 percent oxygen.
Without any oxygen, the Earth would pretty much invert in itself.
The entire ground would turn to dust, but then there’s that molten core that would
probably kill us.
Kinda like a real life hell?
Well we can’t say for sure if we’d go straight down, but there would be catastrophic
earthquakes happening from the entire Earth’s core shifting in different ways.
So all in all, no oxygen for even 10 seconds would destroy our planet.
If we lost oxygen for an hour, it would have the exact same affects, our planet would most
likely cease to exist if it lost oxygen for an hour.
Although if you had an electric car, you would still be able to drive, because it engine
doesn’t rely on an internal combustion, the way airplanes and cars that burn gas do.
It uses electricity instead, which would still work.
So I guess Elon Musk is on to something here guys.
Maybe he knows something we don’t.
In case you can’t tell I’m kidding.
Having an electric car wouldn’t make a difference.
You’d still die.
Now if you guys are like me, who had trouble breathing while writing this script, you may
have been having some issues breathing while watching this video.
So let’s just take a moment and breath.
In and out.
Three deep breaths.
Feel better?
If you don’t, go outside or something I don’t know.
But no need to worry guys.
This isn’t happening.
Our world has tons of oxygen.
We’re not going to run out anytime soon.
And like I said, if we did, we’d die almost immediately so it’s fine.
I mean it’d suck but we probably wouldn’t be in too much pain.
Hopefully not.
Only one way to find out.
I’m kidding.
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