What would happen if oxygen disappeared for 10 seconds worldwide?

What would happen if oxygen disappeared for 10 seconds worldwide?
Well, first of all, we probably wouldn't die from suffocation since most of us can hold our breath for 10 seconds. But there would be other more or less serious consequences:

The ozone layer would disappear, exposing us to UV rays for 10 seconds.
Internal combustion engines would stop functioning.
Planes about to take off would crash, while those already in the air would glide.
All buildings would turn to dust instantly (oxygen is a major component of concrete).
Everyone would experience inner ear damage because the sudden drop in atmospheric pressure by 21% would cause dysfunction in the Eustachian tube.
Seas, oceans, lakes, and rivers... All the water would vanish instantly, leaving only hydrogen, which would "float" upwards and never return, being the lightest element.
Since the Earth's surface and mantle are composed of 45% oxygen, we would all be in freefall from a great height. But don't worry; we wouldn't see or feel anything since we are composed of 60% oxygen. There is oxygen in all our cells, in our DNA... and suddenly, poof! We would turn into a kind of ash. So, it only takes the disappearance of an essential element for 10 seconds (or even less) to annihilate life on Earth.

lazarus wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 21, 2023 6:42 am

Well heck, why don't we just try it once and see what happens anyway.

ChicagoGranny wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 21, 2023 9:07 am

lazarus wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 21, 2023 6:42 am

Well heck, why don't we just try it once and see what happens anyway.

If you watch the movie Oppenheimer, you will see that some nuclear physicists thought that when the first atomic bomb was exploded the whole atmosphere of the earth might burn. In the movie, Oppenheimer goes to Einstein to get reassurance that this would not happen. Einstein refused to reassure him.

There was a chance the earth would be ended in a few seconds. These evil people went ahead with the bomb.

“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority; still more when you superadd the tendency of the certainty of corruption by authority.” - Lord Acton

Conrad wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 22, 2023 6:33 am

FIFY

ChicagoGranny wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 22, 2023 7:41 am

Conrad wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 22, 2023 6:33 am

FIFY

As if that would have been reassuring.

ChicagoGranny wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 21, 2023 9:07 am

. . . the movie Oppenheimer . . . there was a chance . . .

Conrad wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 22, 2023 6:59 am

What if the moon was made of BBQ ribs?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQDqRlMeJ4U

The long, strange history of what came to be known as the “atmospheric ignition” scenario has been distorted over the years, and the movie distorts it further. . . . Aditi Verma, an assistant professor of nuclear engineering and radiological sciences at the University of Michigan, put it this way: “What a physicist means by ‘near zero’ would be zero to an engineer.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/ ... bomb-test/

lazarus wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 22, 2023 8:48 am

I believe the chances that the moon is made of BBQ ribs are near zero:

ChicagoGranny wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 22, 2023 9:45 am

lazarus wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 22, 2023 8:48 am

I believe the chances that the moon is made of BBQ ribs are near zero:

It seems you weren't around when pigs could fly.*



*At escape velocity.

lazarus wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 22, 2023 8:48 am

ChicagoGranny wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 21, 2023 9:07 am

. . . the movie Oppenheimer . . . there was a chance . . .

Conrad wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 22, 2023 6:59 am

What if the moon was made of BBQ ribs?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQDqRlMeJ4U

I believe the chances that the moon is made of BBQ ribs are near zero:

The long, strange history of what came to be known as the “atmospheric ignition” scenario has been distorted over the years, and the movie distorts it further. . . . Aditi Verma, an assistant professor of nuclear engineering and radiological sciences at the University of Michigan, put it this way: “What a physicist means by ‘near zero’ would be zero to an engineer.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/ ... bomb-test/

Movies are more about entertainment and creating dramatic tension than about education or historical accuracy.

Conrad wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 23, 2023 6:38 am

Is that your scientific opinion?