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Kennemer Dunes Parallel Universe in 360°, today. Compassion [ detachment ]
Above: Photosynthesis and respiration during trail training. Training fueled by breathing air, drinking enriched H20 with Mg and C23H31NO6 and rest in darkness and silence.
Min/max temperature: 10°C/18°C; humidity: 32%; precipitation: 2 mm; sea level pressure: 1005 hPa; wind: ESE 33.8 km/h; visibility: 10.0 kilometres; Clouds: Few 6400 m., Mostly Cloudy 8229 m.; Moon: Waxing Crescent, 23% illuminated.
"In nature, free oxygen is produced by the light-driven splitting of water during oxygenic photosynthesis. According to some estimates, green algae and cyanobacteria in marine environments provide about 70% of the free oxygen produced on Earth, and the rest is produced by terrestrial plants. Other estimates of the oceanic contribution to atmospheric oxygen are higher, while some estimates are lower, suggesting oceans produce ~45% of Earth's atmospheric oxygen each year. A simplified overall formula for photosynthesis is: [...]
carbon dioxide + water + sunlight → glucose + dioxygen [...]
Dioxygen is used in cellular respiration and many major classes of organic molecules in living organisms contain oxygen, such as proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, and fats, as do the major constituent inorganic compounds of animal shells, teeth, and bone. Most of the mass of living organisms is oxygen as a component of water, the major constituent of lifeforms. Conversely, oxygen is continuously replenished by photosynthesis, which uses the energy of sunlight to produce oxygen from water and carbon dioxide. Oxygen is too chemically reactive to remain a free element in air without being continuously replenished by the photosynthetic action of living organisms. Another form (allotrope) of oxygen, ozone (O3), strongly absorbs ultraviolet UVB radiation and the high-altitude ozone layer helps protect the biosphere from ultraviolet radiation."
From: 'Oxigen, Wkipedia'
"How does life start? It originates because lightning trough the air strikes water, [ and ] trough several reactions make connections: amino acids, resulting in DNA. That is the genesis of life."
prof.dr.ir. G.M.W. Kroesen, plasma physicist TU/Eindhoven, personal communication during filmed interview, 11 November 2016
