Our bodies have multiple enzymes and antioxidants to keep oxygen from slowly killing us. And this guy wants to concentrate it. Hyperbaric has its uses, making a normal person live longer is not one of them.
fire hazard too.
Listened to a tale of a kid with adhd thrown into one of these and the moron doctors didn’t follow proper safety. Apparently it’s not just a fire, it’s like a goddamn plasma burn. No way on hell do you survive. Better to let a person burn quickly rather than attempt rescue.
Kids name was Thomas Cooper, died in Detroit.
yup. flame in a pure oxygen env (or even just a high %) spreads insanely quickly and can even burn the lungs.
It was a complicated time when life switched to oxygen. We still have life without oxygen btw (mostly in the depths). But those damn plants fucked up a good life for everyone back then.
Plenty of anaerobic bacteria topside! Go take a dump. That smell is mostly their waste products.
Fun fact: Poop is mostly bacteria. Had a gut surgeon tell me it was 90%.
Animals are pooping inside of me?!
Go take a dump.
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
i find that hard to believe, i could see a significant portion like 30%, but surely a lot of it is also cells from the body being flushed out, and just straight up the part of our food that didn’t get absorbed? Like the whole reason we need fibre is so it goes through the digestive system and makes the poo have a good consistency…
Edit: yeah the abstract says that 55% of the solids in poo is bacteria (17% fibre, and 24% other soluble stuff. Also this is in 9 people eating a british diet which isn’t exactly famous for being high in fibre…), so yes technically poo is mostly bacteria but only if you ignore the water and then it’s only barely a majority of the solid matter. Still interesting that it’s that high of a percentage, though.
90% sounds about right. We’re two legged supports for our bacteria. Without us it would take them ages to go places. That’s why we shit at least once a day. Toilets are our bacteria’s malediction.
Also you have to breathe more from the belly.
Edit: those lazy oxygen deniers are squatting the guts of all the land dwelling animals, as it protects them against the new (relatively) toxic atmosphere. We should probably encourage them to face their fear and discover the world. Diarrhoea for all, that’s what I say!
I remember seeing a meme about what alien life might be like and they say “what do you mean all life on Earth breathes rocket fuel???”
The dominant species exposes itself to damaging stellar radiation as a form of recreation.
I get these stories as a way of pointing out the inherant absurditity in a lot of every day things…
…but also… life requires energy. Something’s gotta keep the metabolism going. Oxygen is both highly reactive and significantly more abundant than any of its heavier counterparts further down the column. If there is life out there with a metabolic rate anywhere approaching our own, it would be weird if it didn’t use oxygen.
The great filter turned out to be an atmosphere fire. We’re lucky we got nitrogen.
I’m smoking Campari through an olive right now!
Is the olive boneless?
Didn’t a court rule recently that boneless olives are allowed to have bones?
The olive bone is the healthiest part! Keeps your teeth strong.
Why is this meme implying that olives, Campari and cigarettes is not the peak of human diet that we all know it to be?
Cheese wine and cigarettes is le better!
Because it’s missing the 6 month old leg of pork that’s so full of nitrates it cannot even rot.
Cigarettes are not.
Neither is Campari, or eating just olives but here we are.
Guys I think this meme might have spread dietary misinformation
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I’m confused?
He is, I believe, a silly tech millionaire who thinks he can reverse aging. He has his son’s blood injected daily as I recall. Also penis Botox, for some reason.
Is that botox injectes into penis, or botox extracted from Clostridium botulinum on penis?
All jokes aside. Why inject a muscle relaxant in penis?
I thought botox paralyzed the muscles
Erections are almost an entirely cardiovascular response. Blood flows in and it has a difficult time coming out until the penis is chock full of blood and stiff as a board.
Call me a Luddite but I don’t like the sound of toxin injections and “shockwave therapy” for my genitals.
What’s the son think about this?
Also known as a coward.
Time, aging, and death come for us all. We must make peace with that knowledge. This man is incapable of living life, through fear of losing his life.
I’m gonna go play in some dirt now, and eat raspberries straight from the bush. I know which of us will be enjoying our time on this planet more.
I know which of us will be enjoying our time on this planet more.
Him because of the massive luxury his wealth allows? The mere fact that he has time for pointless bullshit like this while the rest of us have to work for a living should tell you something.
You can have all the free time in the world, if you spend it all trying to have more, you don’t get to enjoy it.
Meh, if you call endlessing shitposting on the internet work.
- Why do we complain of Nature? She has shown herself kindly; life, if you know how to use it, is long. But one man is possessed by an avarice that is insatiable, another by a toilsome devotion to tasks that are useless; one man is besotted with wine, another is paralyzed by sloth; one man is exhausted by an ambition that always hangs upon the decision of others, another, driven on by the greed of the trader, is led over all lands and all seas by the hope of gain; some are tormented by a passion for war and are always either bent upon inflicting danger upon others or concerned about their own; some there are who are worn out by voluntary servitude in a thankless attendance upon the great; many are kept busy either in the pursuit of other men’s fortune or in complaining of their own; many, following no fixed aim, shifting and inconstant and dissatisfied, are plunged by their fickleness into plans that are ever new; some have no fixed principle by which to direct their course, but Fate takes them unawares while they loll and yawn—so surely does it happen that I cannot doubt the truth of that utterance which the greatest of poets delivered with all the seeming of an oracle: “The part of life we really live is small.”[1] For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time. Vices beset us and surround us on every side, and they do not permit us to rise anew and lift up our eyes for the discernment of truth, but they keep us down when once they have overwhelmed us and we are chained to lust. Their victims are never allowed to return to their true selves; if ever they chance to find some release, like the waters of the deep sea which continue to heave even after the storm is past, they are tossed about, and no rest from their lusts abides. Think you that I am speaking of the wretches whose evils are admitted? Look at those whose prosperity men flock to behold; they are smothered by their blessings. To how many are riches a burden! From how many do eloquence and the daily straining to display their powers draw forth blood! How many are pale from constant pleasures! To how many does the throng of clients that crowd about them leave no freedom! In short, run through the list of all these men from the lowest to the highest—this man desires an advocate,[2] this one answers the call, that one is on trial, that one defends him, that one gives sentence; no one asserts his claim to himself, everyone is wasted for the sake of another. Ask about the men whose names are known by heart, and you will see that these are the marks that distinguish them: A cultivates B and B cultivates C; no one is his own master. And then certain men show the most senseless indignation—they complain of the insolence of their superiors, because they were too busy to see them when they wished an audience! But can anyone have the hardihood to complain of the pride of another when he himself has no time to attend to himself? After all, no matter who you are, the great man does sometimes look toward you even if his face is insolent, he does sometimes condescend to listen to your words, he permits you to appear at his side; but you never deign to look upon yourself, to give ear to yourself. There is no reason, therefore, to count anyone in debt for such services, seeing that, when you performed them, you had no wish for another’s company, but could not endure your own.
- Seneca the Younger
https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/On_the_shortness_of_life/Chapter_II
I highly encourage everyone to read these letters by Seneca, the Stoic philosopher, at least once in their life. Preferably earlier than later.
This rich turd is afraid of aging and dying so he’s using pseudoscience to attempt to live longer, while many of the longest living people are known to reach their advanced ages while consuming unhealthy foods and questionable lifestyle choices.
he’s using pseudoscience to attempt to live longer
Yeap, for some reason tech billionaires are all complete idiots outside of their field of expertise. I don’t know what it is about computer science that makes people so confident they’re always the smartest person in the room, but it does lead to some interesting scams.
These aren’t even real hyperbaric chambers, they’re marketed as “wellness chambers”. Real hyperbaric chambers are illegal to own/operate in a living space because they are dangerous if not operated and maintained by an expert.
He’s not getting 100% o2 and they aren’t getting the appropriate amount of atmospheric pressure utilized in hyperbaric medicine. There’s no evidence to support any kind of benefit of hyperbaric medicine at these levels.
I don’t know what it is about computer science that makes people so confident they’re always the smartest person in the room, but it does lead to some interesting scams.
It’s not computer science. It’s money and power. Having everyone else in your life falling all over themselves to kiss your ass is toxic to one’s personality, and makes it hard to stay grounded.
The thing with becoming rich and powerful through other avenues, it might happen in a way that you’re less confident in your intellectual capabilities and are used to outsourcing things to professionals. If you’re a pro athlete or actor or musician, you might come up with the understanding that you need your agents and lawyers and accountants to do what they do.
But tech business leaders who become rich feel that they know the tech, know the business, and know the world. The thing they are most confident about is the thing that made them rich.
See also some athletes believing in nonsense about health and fitness, because of their superior athletic performance.
Or artists who descend into terrible rabbit holes, artistically, because nobody is around to tell them no.
Anyone who gets rich off of their smarts is susceptible. Engineers, doctors, bankers, financial professionals, lawyers, etc.
it’s because they’ve bought in to the capitalist myth. only smart people can make lots of money, so surely they must be smart. combine this with yes men and snake oil salesmen who make their money scamming rich people, and the result is a lot of rich people who are really into weird pseudoscience
I’m not sure if it’s purely spurned by capitalism, though I’m sure it doesn’t help. I think it’s more of an issue with narcissistic egos, considering even our global leaders are prone to fantastical thinking when it comes down to longevity. Not too long ago Xi and Putin were caught on a hot mic talking about immortality via organ donation. That’s not how any of this works…
What I love most about him is that he trades blood with his son. Imagine believing your blood is old and then convincing your son to give you his young blood in exchange for your spent blood. If that’s not shitty parenting I don’t know what is.
What is a child beyond a resource for everlasting life?
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Yea, looks like fun…
Am I the only one who thought this was Tom Scott for a moment?
Kinda looks like him and it would be the type of thing Tom Scott would demonstrate but he wouldn’t push pseudoscience so aggressively
IMMORTAN! WITNESS MEEEEE!!
This guy pissing away millions on his ongoing psychosis episode should be grounds enough to ban billionaires forever.
hes very obsessed with extending his lifespan compared to other billionaires, his pretty extreme. hes basically like that billionaire in ROYAL PAINS show from usa network, where he was using sharks, unsanctioned research from cuba, to “extend his lifespan, treat his illness”
the sad thing is that the best way we know of to extend your life is just getting plenty of exercise, eating healthy, having friends, and avoiding cancer.
simply by trying so hard to live longer he’s probably shortening his lifespan from the stress
hes trying the pseudoscience way unfortunately. he alleges hes doing research, but not collaborating with universities or research teams. he was such a FREAK over it, he dumped taryn southern over her breast cancer diagnosis(on a video of another influencer, she allegedes she was diagnosed very young for stage 3 breast cancer, it reminded him of her mortality.
If you see this dude in person. He looks like an actual case of turning into a zombie. It’s like he lost his soul. He has dead eyes.
Well, zombies live forever. Kinda.
Oh yea, he looks like an actual vampire, funny enough he uses his sons blood to inject it into his skin. hes also a very concieted person, if you know about her former gf, and her lawsuit against him, he boasted how he beat her in court, because she dint come up with enough evidence against him.
You just know he’s going to have some hilariously ironic death like the Segway scooter guy. It’s like learning about the guy who claimed God couldn’t sink the Titanic and deciding, “I’m going to do that! Every day!”
He already broke his leg by dancing like a white guy on stage at a concert a couple of years ago.
The segway guy is actually a pretty sad story. James Haselden was a genuinely good guy, founder of a company making a type of portable and collapsible barrier, originally intended to shore up canals and rivers but ended up solving a variety of problems around the world.
He kept manufacturing local to his childhood home, paying significantly above the average to his staff, created jobs and opportunities for many people in a relatively impoverished community.
Gave many many millions of pounds to charities and good causes.
He bought the segway company, intending on reviving what had become a failing business and died a pretty tragic and stupid death and now all anyone thinks of him is “haha how ironic”.
“haha how ironic”
Even in death he keeps on giving.
Take your upvote and get out.
I bet he dies becuase there is some old in the lines or fittings and he’s breathing nothing but moldy air all day long.
He probably has staff cleaning everything daily.
Or because now his body just thinks it doesn’t need to protect him from airborne diseases and shuts that part down.
I mean heat shock proteins exist. A little grit is needed in life to keep the immune system on its toes.
that’s not how the immune system works. there’s this thing called post-viral illness
This is why I have cats, their scratches alone probably keeps my immune system solid.
Until the toxoplasmosis gets ya anyway.
Eh it’ll be fine, the autism and PTSD don’t really leave much room for any other mental shit.
My guess is ingrown toenail infection that spreads.
Wasn’t Apollo I destroyed when a spark caused an explosion on the launchpad due to pressurising the cabin with pure oxygen?
No, it was because of shoddy wiring causing a fire inside the capsule in an area that couldn’t be accessed easily from the inside or extinguished from the outside. The egress sequence was also very time consuming (somewhere like 90 seconds). Apollo I also was just a training module, it never got launched.
Maybe, but that’s neither here nor there. We can’t draw that correlation to effects of oxygen on the body via respiration.
Oxygen is so bad for you, too. It literally damages cells. I don’t mean this ironically or anything else. It is physically bad for you to breathe pure oxygen.
Rust in peace, Bryan.
Oxygen is corrosive as fuck. That’s why people are so obsessed with anti-oxidants. It’s important to cellular respiration because it is do damn volatile, but our bodies have to do a lot to keep it contained and safe.
Hyberbaric chambers have a tendency to explode.
There was one in the news the other day that tragically exploded with a small child inside.
What did the little shit do to cause it to tragically explode?
Edit: Yeah, I know, I’m going to hell.
You know I’m required to push all the buttons, right?
Pretty quick way to die if the oxygen ignites.
You think oxygen is your ally, but you merely adopted the oxygen. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn’t see carbon dioxide until I was already a man!
My favorite thing about the whole myth about people in southern Italy regularly living to be over 100 is that it’s actually just pension fraud.
Ok but we still can’t deny that Mediterranean cuisine is maximum nutritious & maximum yummy.
That’s the spirit! Shortlived as it may be
I won’t fight you on that.
Oxygen chamber? Sounds like a great way to die early
Hope they don’t have bare wires and too much velcro.
Yes, I also hope they don’t and not that they do.
I just meant breathing more oxygen makes you agree faster
makes you agree faster
You’re absolutely right.
Careful with that oxygen
Yeah that stuff can make you agree faster
I only breathe CO2 and I absolutely disagr
He’s dead Jim.
No, he’s just sleeping
Forever.
Oh good
Damn it
Well, a lack of oxygen makes agreements take longer. So I must concur
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Source?
Uh, high school science teacher. Never really looked it up until today but considering there’s science on the reverse effect (less oxygen for slower aging), I’d say it’s probably not bullshit.
https://hms.harvard.edu/news/decrease-oxygen-boost-longevity
So, you wanna start a business together?
