Re:Scientists discover first nitrogen fixing organelle
by adastra22 on Sunday April 21, 2024 @02:25AM
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Nitrogen is inert. Even if you could run out of N2 (unlikely), it would have no effect.
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Re:Scientists discover first nitrogen fixing organelle
by bonzini on Sunday April 21, 2024 @03:12AM
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Except burning your lungs in the not-so-long run, as they are not evolved to deal with a pure oxygen atmosphere.
Re:Scientists discover first nitrogen fixing organelle
by nradov on Sunday April 21, 2024 @12:47PM
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Lungs are damaged by high PPO2, not high FO2.
Re:Scientists discover first nitrogen fixing organelle
by adastra22 on Sunday April 21, 2024 @04:16PM
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Lungs do absolutely fine in 3 psi pure oxygen.
Re:Scientists discover first nitrogen fixing organelle
by gitanovic on Sunday April 21, 2024 @02:57AM
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That's wrong, the fact that is inert doesn't mean it's useless
If you remove all nitrogen from atmosphere, there WILL be consequences
Re:Scientists discover first nitrogen fixing organelle
by gjytfhbfd on Sunday April 21, 2024 @03:56AM
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Current planes will not be able to fly since they will lose 70% of lift. They will grow gigantic wings.
Re:Scientists discover first nitrogen fixing organelle
by gibolt on Sunday April 21, 2024 @04:31AM
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There'd be less drag on rockets too. That could be a plus for when we need to escape the death spiral we create
Re:Scientists discover first nitrogen fixing organelle
by adastra22 on Sunday April 21, 2024 @04:15PM
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The sibling comment about lift is one of the few things I can think of. Birds would have a tough time.
Eliminating a gas while keeping all other partial pressures constant only affects physical processes. Biochemistry on the other hand only relies on partial pressures, and the number of organisms which interact with atmospheric nitrogen are literally so few that you could count them on one hand.