Oxygen: A Matter of Life and Death
The Infinite Monkey Cage
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The Ultimate Building Blocks, the Ultimate Elements in Chemistry
If you put enough oxygen into an atmosphere, could that then lead to creating life? If i was writing like a syphi novel, i would say no. Because life began without oxygen. I began in the olengs life. So you'd have to have life already to then kond of translate. One of the real problems is that oxygen is so reactive that some of the fundamental building blocks from which you you might want to construct life may well be quite fragile. And you might lose them as quickly as now i've killed my babies.
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