What If the World Lost Oxygen for 60 Seconds

It would only take a matter of seconds without oxygen for irreversible damage to occur to the world, and your body. Check out the insane amount of chaos and destruction that would occur if the Earth lost oxygen for just 60 seconds!

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[goofycat]

Imagine being an astronaut watching all of this happen

[thmas_cz]

Lays chips bags: "Did you forget about me!?"

[ikicove]

*That one person that was holding their breath underwater & didn't even notice*

[jan-seli]

The airplane masks actually chemically generate the oxygen once they're deployed. I think they would work in this scenario

[cap]

The plane wouldn’t immediately fall out of the sky. It might lose altitude but it will still glide. A plane can glide for a lot longer than 1 minute so when oxygen returns, the pilots could restart the engines and land safely assuming the pilots don’t die or pass out because of the loss of oxygen. But that is unlikely due to the oxygen masks on bored in aircraft.

[zachcressman]

Oxygen stored in commercial airplanes is not stored as a gas. It's a solid chemical mixture that reacts. So the initial removal of atmospheric oxygen wouldn't remove it. Meaning that people on the plane would have the emergency oxygen.

[juraanncestery]

Props to the universe that tried out both of these



*…and of course, the invisible, invincible cameraman*

[DreadEnder]

One problem I can see with this is it doesn’t account for human error for example with the cars stopping as the lack of O2 doesn’t effect brakes but it doesn’t take into account that the drivers may be too busy suffocating to brake

And it doesn’t take anaerobic respiration into account which doesn’t need oxygen so they wouldn’t die quite as fast

[harrydewey]

The issue I have with this is that chemically bound oxygen isn’t removed, most airplanes have chemical oxygen generators, not oxygen tanks, the oxygen itself takes up too much space to be efficient. In theory the pilots could glide for a minute, and they would be constantly trying to restart the engines which would resume after a minute

[steve]

I don't think a plane would instantly go into a dive like that, If you set a steady course and maintain airspeed by pitching a few degrees down it will glide for a very long time.

[brandondavis]

Hey, no! Scenario one was in the atmosphere, you can't just remove it from sealed containers. Those people in the plane suffered.

[minoru]

In the second scenario, wouldn't the sudden recombination of oxygen and hydrogen create an explosion since that reaction is just hydrogen combusting?

[amandanewport]

If this happens I would hug my mom for the whole time

[Isnotreal]

Basically everyone's doomed BECAUSE you wouldn't be prepared to hold your breath for 60 seconds at the exact time it is removed so u don't have time to take a breath to hold☹️

[SakuraNyan]

5:23 Correction: The O2 is from oxygen generators, not stored as compressed gas. These would probably actually function. Now the *pilot's* O2 supply on the other hand...

6:03 The combined lack of oxygen+loss of atmospheric pressure+loss of engines would be a bad thing, but not a guaranteed crash.

[pixeldragon]

I have a correction: we do not feel out of breath due to lack of oxygen, but a build up of CO2. You can not even notice breathing oxygen poor air as long as the CO2 doesn’t build up.

[charadreemurr]

3:18 Dude, thanks for clarifying where the brain damage would occur, was a little confused on that but that helped me so much, thanks guys

[ГеоргиВранчилски]

Bro imagine not being able to hold your breath a minute 😂

[danielcurtis]

I think the nitrogen would become enriched to the point of narcosis. I believe this would cause sudden or at least dramatic loss of consciousness.
I don’t think you’ll be aware much after about 10 seconds. Without toxic effects of excess CO2 you shouldn’t feel “air hunger”. As a result you would pass out peacefully most likely.

[derekmulder]

Billions of people would definitely pass out right away with no air that quickly for 60 seconds