Something I didn’t know

This article reminded me of a particular quote from House: You know how they say that you can’t live without love? Well oxygen is even more important.

Roughly two and a half billion years ago, when the level of oxygen in the atmosphere had started to increase dramatically as a result of oxygenic photosynthesis, a lot of the ’stuff’ that was living here on Earth didn’t really think (…at all, but go with it…) of that extra oxygen as an improvement. No, the fact that oxygen came around was quite the opposite of an improvement in the short term, looking through the ‘eyes’ of the anaerobic organisms that lived back then it was nothing short of a catastrophe; the oxygen was really bad for them, it killed them in droves.

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Incidentally, this is one of the most important processes of all that take place here on Earth. If you don’t already know the basics of how it works, after you’ve read the article call your former school teachers and complain.