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Zok
08-18-2008, 02:43 AM
I just saw a commercial for this. Apparently they're trying to sell it as an "energy boost." I can't believe people actually buy this shit.

https://www.o2performance.com/default.aspx?refid=1031430
AtrainV
08-18-2008, 05:40 AM
I hate shit like this. Actually, I think all performance enhancing new-agey stuff is stupid. Maybe I'm narrow-minded, but it really gets my goat for some reason.
Zok
08-18-2008, 12:28 PM
I hate shit like this. Actually, I think all performance enhancing new-agey stuff is stupid. Maybe I'm narrow-minded, but it really gets my goat for some reason.

I fully agree - there's a whole slew of products that piss me off (HeadOn, ActiveOn, etc), especially weight loss products marketed over TV (like Lipozene). It sickens me to think that so many people are being tricked by this shit. I mean, if you're willing to accept that all you have to do is take a pill to lose weight, you're probably also pretty emotionally fragile (about your weight, at least) which is why I think it's that much worse when they take advantage of people like that.
Suzie
08-18-2008, 01:22 PM
I find commercials for feminine products more irritating.. and also commercials for the pill, but that's just me..

The air thing is silly, but not new.. it's been around for a while I believe.
Brontosaurio
08-18-2008, 07:50 PM
They definitively got the idea from Mel Brooks, in the movie Spaceballs...

http://img77.imageshack.us/img77/1838/skroob20spaceballsfp1.jpg

Just another way to get easy money...:(
KevinLoveIsMyHero
11-05-2009, 06:09 AM
bump
Illegal Immigrant
11-05-2009, 06:14 AM
now days pure oxygen is hard to come by.

seriously

Don't hate man these people are doing a service for society.
Junior Jacon Jeese Jurger
11-05-2009, 06:17 AM
http://i38.tinypic.com/33mpg5g.png
Funky Fungus
11-05-2009, 06:26 AM
http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee246/EER4/Riveting_tale_chap.jpg

Seriously, what idiot would buy that
Mantikore
11-05-2009, 09:05 AM
fuck that, i powerup on jenkem like popeye does with spinach.

ack, gackgackgackgackgack
http://cdn-write.demandstudios.com/upload//6000/700/00/4/46704.jpg
ShyStar
11-05-2009, 11:15 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wgf3DMWVWAM

'Dish Jockey' - This was on TV, a joke, but wouldn't be surprised if it were real considering all the shit on the market these days.
kfc v lot
11-05-2009, 11:26 AM
Did you know you can die from oxygen?

I think it's only at certain pressure??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_toxicity
ShyStar
11-05-2009, 11:40 AM
Did you know you can die from oxygen?

I think it's only at certain pressure??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_toxicity

Everything is toxic, the difference between a poison and a remedy is the dose.
dump truck backing up
11-05-2009, 12:13 PM
beep...beep...beep...
kayx
11-05-2009, 12:45 PM
I'll just wait until I'm dying of emphysema and the give me a whole tank of the stuff.
reject
11-05-2009, 12:48 PM
you can look up what polarity develops what gas, but trial and error by flame will tell you as well

Ha.
Your Local Crack Dealer
11-05-2009, 12:56 PM
stop trollin zok
reject
11-05-2009, 12:57 PM
stop trollin zok

Your sentence is gramatically ambiguous.
Your Local Crack Dealer
11-05-2009, 01:08 PM
Your sentence is gramatically ambiguous.

thx brah;)
stab
11-05-2009, 02:40 PM
I was pretty fucked off I couldn't buy air so I'm quite relieved now.
Lulzar
11-05-2009, 02:46 PM
What most people don't understand is that in the air we breathe, oxygen makes up only about 20%. With the majority being made up of nitrogen, and the other percent made up of traces of other elements. Breathing in 100% oxygen clearly isn't the way nature intended it.
NamelessNom4d
11-05-2009, 02:47 PM
LOL!

Who would try that shit just for the lulz? And of course, not buy it, steal it. :thumbsup:
stab
11-05-2009, 02:50 PM
What most people don't understand is that in the air we breathe, oxygen makes up only about 20%. With the majority being made up of nitrogen, and the other percent made up of traces of other elements. Breathing in 100% oxygen clearly isn't the way nature intended it.

I think most people with half a high school education understand that.
Lulzar
11-05-2009, 06:19 PM
I think most people with half a high school education understand that.

In other words, 10% of Z understands that.
The English Gentleman
11-05-2009, 06:31 PM
i hate to be that guy, but

the more o2 you get, the more energy you have

:facepalm:

I find commercials for feminine products more irritating.. and also commercials for the pill, but that's just me..


Likewise, nice girls keep their disgusting blobbing to them-fucking-selves.
LSA King
11-05-2009, 07:27 PM
Man, you've been able to buy canned air since the dinosaurs. Get with the program Zok, :rolleyes:.
ShyStar
11-05-2009, 08:59 PM
LOL!

Who would try that shit just for the lulz? And of course, not buy it, steal it. :thumbsup:

There's already enough oxygen thieves in this world without you encouraging more...
hotbod
11-05-2009, 09:16 PM
http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee246/EER4/Riveting_tale_chap.jpg



i SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE
Vargus
11-05-2009, 09:43 PM
i hate to be that guy, but

the more o2 you get, the more energy you have, people who breath through oxygen tanks, they absorb less air, so a higher oxygen content lets them get the same ammount of oxygen they would otherwise need

think of charcoal, you can take it and burn it at a very slow rate, or you can take saltpeter and sulfur, and when the charcoal burns, it gets the o2 to leave from the kno2, and the o2 that leaves gets replaced with sulfur, that rapid release of o2 makes the charcoal burn faster, when you have those 3, it makes gunpowder

more oxygen, faster reaction

its the same for the body, you add more oxygen, you can do more

hot air has less oxygen in it because it expands and spreads out

cold air condenses, more oxygen

you ever notice how you can breath better with cold air, thus a breath of fresh air, which is never hot air

would i buy this product? no, but it does work

you dont want to spend the 19 dollars for a can?

set up a battery, up to two wires for each terminal, each in water

have the wires below a bottle or bowl

air will develop on these wires and rise

half oxygen half hydrogen

you can look up what polarity develops what gas, but trial and error by flame will tell you as well

Pure oxygen is deadly, btw. Early frogmen of WW1 found out the hard way.

Also, you don't get energy from oxygen, you get energy from the decomposition of ATP. Moreso, you are directed to administer the product before you begin your activity and magically the effect lasts for more than another breath.

It's bullshit, plain and simple.
Bender
11-05-2009, 10:01 PM
No ones heard of oxygen bars?
LSA King
11-06-2009, 01:40 AM
No ones heard of oxygen bars?



The first time I ever heard of one was in Nashville, TN of all places you would expect.





Has to be the most retarded idea I have ever heard. Pay $5 for 20 minutes of sucking air. There is a reason why it makes you feel good, on average the air we breath is about 50% actual oxygen if that. Its why you feel a little high when you get put on the stretcher and they stick an oxygen mask on you. Pure oxygen, non-polluted gives you that sort of high.
5024L
11-06-2009, 01:51 AM
The first time I ever heard of one was in Nashville, TN of all places you would expect.





Has to be the most retarded idea I have ever heard. Pay $5 for 20 minutes of sucking air. There is a reason why it makes you feel good, on average the air we breath is about 50% actual oxygen if that. Its why you feel a little high when you get put on the stretcher and they stick an oxygen mask on you. Pure oxygen, non-polluted gives you that sort of high.

You have no clue what you are talking about do you? Air is no where close to 40% oxygen, and the oxygen that they use in a mask is hardly ever 100%, it would be more like a 50% oxygen mix. I think room air is 20%, and it's under 28% for sure.
Spectral
11-06-2009, 01:52 AM
Nashville, TN

i was born dere
Lord hang man
11-06-2009, 02:11 AM
..Is it clean air? Sold.
Spectral
11-06-2009, 02:12 AM
..Is it clean air? Sold.

shut up faggot
LSA King
11-06-2009, 02:13 AM
You have no clue what you are talking about do you? Air is no where close to 40% oxygen, and the oxygen that they use in a mask is hardly ever 100%, it would be more like a 50% oxygen mix. I think room air is 20%, and it's under 28% for sure.




Well of course we are both just throwing around random numbers, the point is outside everyday air is never more then 50% pure oxygen. I'm pretty sure the 20 percentile is pretty damn low, perhaps for indoor air hence why buildings and houses need circulation, I don't notice much because I leave my windows open 24/7 rain or shine.

There is a reason why oxygen tanks have to be a mix of two to three gases, I can't remember exactly why but back when I was bored and wikipedia'd everything I remember reading why.
5024L
11-06-2009, 02:18 AM
Well of course we are both just throwing around random numbers, the point is outside everyday air is never more then 50% pure oxygen. I'm pretty sure the 20 percentile is pretty damn low, perhaps for indoor air hence why buildings and houses need circulation, I don't notice much because I leave my windows open 24/7 rain or shine.

There is a reason why oxygen tanks have to be a mix of two to three gases, I can't remember exactly why but back when I was bored and wikipedia'd everything I remember reading why.

I have first hand experience with this shit, and room air 20 something percent oxygen. I know for a fact it is also under 28%.
Lord hang man
11-06-2009, 02:19 AM
shut up faggot

I'm-a ban you.

You like cerebral palsy? Yea they can't run as good can they, you fucking retard raping mongoloid.
LSA King
11-06-2009, 02:22 AM
I know for a fact it is also under 28%.



Inside or outside air?
5024L
11-06-2009, 02:24 AM
Inside or outside air?
Both, I think. Unless you are inside of a place and there are oxygen tanks leaking.
LSA King
11-06-2009, 02:28 AM
Both, I think. Unless you are inside of a place and there are oxygen tanks leaking.



I'm going to have to call bullshit on the air outside not being more then 28% oxygen. Like indoors its all about your environment. Circulation indoors could easily raises the oxygen flow by 50-100% with windows and doors open. So results vary and climate is a big difference. For instance it will be more stuffy and less oxygen in humid places over arid and windy areas like where I live. Not to mention pollution changes everything. City air always smells more unnatural then rural air. Same with coastal vs living on the plains.
5024L
11-06-2009, 02:30 AM
I'm going to have to call bullshit on the air outside not being more then 28% oxygen. Like indoors its all about your environment. Circulation indoors could easily raises the oxygen flow by 50-100% with windows and doors open. So results vary and climate is a big difference. For instance it will be more stuffy and less oxygen in humid places over arid and windy areas like where I live. Not to mention pollution changes everything. City air always smells more unnatural then rural air. Same with coastal vs living on the plains.
Well you are wrong, it's not.
Lord hang man
11-06-2009, 02:31 AM
When you live on the coast you can see all that pollution bullshit lingering over the ocean quite clearly. That's why LA has such vibrant sunsets :thumbsup:. Not unreasonable to think that a lot of that carbon waste is what we breath rather than oxygen. I'd say we likely are thickening the air, but with deforestation and controlled burning we probably are decreasing the oxygen value of that same air yearly (by small .00* percentages)
LSA King
11-06-2009, 02:56 AM
Well you are wrong, it's not.



You are wrong, it is.
5024L
11-06-2009, 03:02 AM
You are wrong, it is.
Google it so you can know that you are wrong.
litefire
11-06-2009, 03:36 AM
oh my god..how ridiculous..
LSA King
11-06-2009, 03:38 AM
Google it so you can know that you are wrong.



AskJeeves he knows more then Google.
Sentinel owl
11-06-2009, 03:40 AM
'twas only a matter of time. That's the harvest of sowing poor science education. But at the same time, if you realized you could make money from nothing, I bet you'd do it too. They know damn well it's a scam, but they probably view it like a lottery. It's a tax on idiocy.
Uber_Apples
11-06-2009, 04:05 AM
HOLY SHIT
Is it that hard to google "gas composition of earth's atmosphere"?
"The Earth's atmosphere is a layer of gases surrounding the planet Earth that is retained by Earth's gravity. The atmosphere protects life on Earth by absorbing ultraviolet solar radiation, warming the surface through heat retention (greenhouse effect), and reducing temperature extremes between day and night. Dry air contains roughly (by volume) 78.08% nitrogen, 20.95% oxygen, 0.93% argon, 0.038% carbon dioxide, and trace amounts of other gases. Air also contains a variable amount of water vapor, on average around 1%."

TL:DR
20.95% OXYGEN
78.08% NITROGEN

Secondly, I would also like to raise concern to the battery and the electrolysis of water. First off, you need to make sure you are using distilled water mixed with a inert salt (NaCl will not work) and you want to make sure your cathodes are also unreactive (go for platinum or carbon). Using copper wiring and impure water will likely result in the oxidation of copper, also, using NaCl may even result in the production of Chlorine gas. Please learn chemistry.
5024L
11-06-2009, 04:09 AM
I said in the 20th percentile, under 28%, so it seems I was right.
LSA King
11-06-2009, 04:19 AM
I said in the 20th percentile, under 28%, so it seems I was right.



Bastard, I hate you now :(
RestStop
11-06-2009, 08:01 AM
They have oxygen "bars" here at concerts in Ohio.
Supposedly it's supposed to sober a drunk person,
but at $7 a concert beer who wants that?