Send Money For Oxygen!
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Learn about a woman who sent money to a man she met online who told her he’s in space and running out of oxygen! Here’s more from Awaken with JP.
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Breakthroughs With LK-99
South Korean scientists claim they have developed a new super-conductor, dubbed LK-99, that will bring revolutionary changes to the transmission of electrical energy. The new superconductor operates at room temperatures and could transmit energy across super-thin lines without great loss of power.
The primary materials used to manufacture the superconductor — lead and oxygen — are cheap, while the more expensive phosphorous also is needed, although in much smaller quantities. The LK-99 news has now been revealed but there’s still a lengthy review process ahead before any changes can occur.
Here, Clif High discusses the implications of the LK-99 discovery, and says, “Humans are going to the show!” This is another edition of High’s Explorers’ Guide to SciFi World.
The Rings Of Saturn
The are several unexplained anomalies regarding the rings of Saturn. Some of the oddities have been known for decades but others are newer discoveries obtained from the Cassini Probes spectrometer instruments. One of the biggest mysteries is how oxygen can exist in large amounts inside the rings. Another is what are those strange objects traveling through the rings at a suspiciously low rate. More from Matrix Wisdom.
Is Phosphorous the Key to Life?
Scientists have discovered new evidence that one element–phosphorous–could be essential to creating life anywhere in the universe and it could be scarce.
Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen are the so-called bulk elements that make up our muscles and organs, and that we need a lot of to stay alive. But phosphorous is equally as important.
It is the key that provides our genetic make up–DNA and RNA–and our ATP, how we store and use energy. So is life in the universe rarer than we think? Or might there be other alien elements out there creating life we don’t understand? Host Maren Hunsberger explains further in this edition of Seeker.
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Oxygen’s Complex Journey
We breathe in about 17,000 times a day, but it’s a dynamic process we rarely think about. It’s a coordinated effort by our vital organs working together to sustain life by delivering oxygen to tissues about the body. Delivering the oxygen through our system in an orderly manner is a complicated system made possible by our heart, the powerhouse that gets oxygen where it needs to go. Narrator Addison Anderson details the process in this episode of Ted-Ed.
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A Glimpse At Future Earth
In 100 million years, extraterrestrial explorers will find Earth an extraordinary planet to explore. Although homo sapiens might well be extinct, they’d find high amounts of water, higher-than-expected levels of oxygen and a planet that is oddly green. Although homo sapiens survived on Earth for only about 200,000 years, future explorers will realize we left a huge mark.
“Today, scientists are more certain than ever that we’ve changed the Earth to such an extent, that geologists digging in the distant future would classify this as a totally new epoch–The Anthropocene,” says video blog host Joe Hanson. “But when would it begin? What would they find there?” Hanson solves the mysteries in this edition of It’s Okay to be Smart.
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Oxygen Is Killing You
Without oxygen, we’d all be toast. But while it’s an essential element to life, oxygen does cause internal degradation in our bodies. One of the more common effects, called oxidative stress, is believed to contribute to aging. Oxidative stress is similar to the rust you see in metals, a process also unleashed when the metals come in contact with oxygen. Hank Green explains what’s afoot with the Big “O,” and we’re not talking about Obama, in this case. H/T SciShow
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