Water is made up of hydrogen and oxygen, so why aren't we able to breathe underwater? Find out in this episode of BrainStuff. Source: science.howstuf...
people thinking they're too smart to watch this video and then post comments saying how stupid this video is, but still watch it because they dont know the answer x)
This is funny because I literally just finished reading the exact article, word for word on why humans can't breathe underwater. Having said so, it was nice to find a video that actually gave a verbal demonstration of the article. Gives more perspective and makes it easy to take in the information. Great video overall. Thank you! :)
From The Straight Dope (website): [Gills] are rather delicate, and their tremendous surface area (the main thing that makes them work so well) is dependent on being immersed in water to support their weight. Out of water, the gills collapse like wet tissue paper, and very little surface area is left exposed for gas exchange. Most fish, therefore, can only survive a short time out of water before oxygen deficiency catches up with them and they asphyxiate.
More than half is oxygen. The other major elements are carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus. Minor elements are potassium, sulfur, sodium, chlorine, and magnesium. There are trace amounts of many other elements, some essential; most notably, iron.
I read somewhere your body only really needs to breath once every minute to get the correct amount of oxygen. The reason we breath so much is to rid our body of co2.
well the carbon dioxide is not really "dissolved" in the beverages like oxygen is dissolved in water - it exists in an chemical equilibrium and changes form CO2 + H2O back and forth with H2CO3 where oxygen dissolved in water just stays O2 and does not react with the H2O.
all i can say is, that i breath through my nose and i was on the bottom of the swimmingpool, about 1.5 meter deep. and i was moving very slow forwrads. i could easely breath slowly, and i remember that if you devide your nose in to 2 parts upper and lower part, that i breath through the upper part sort a say. (sorry for my english)
i was expecting him to say that it will go into your lung and you will drown and die i got way more information than i expected thats why i like this channel
isn't "dissolved oxygen in water" the same as breathing water? just that they separate the O from the H2O? I don't understand what he means when he says they don't breathe water but the dissolved oxygen in water...
He said that there is 20x as much oxygen in the air. Some people live with only one lung. I would assume that would mean you'd have to have about 20 lungs.
Idk if I was day dreaming or something because a few times I was in a pool under water I could take a few breaths through my nose then I tried to go back down and do it and wouldn't work
i can breath under water, dont know if i can still doe it, but when i was younger i couldt breath, but after 2 min. i was scared so i went up, but there was no problem what so ever....
Nitrogen is mostly inert, because nitrogen molecules have a triple bond (incredibly hard to break), so we would need to put in a huge amount of effort to break it up.
I always thought that fish breathed water -- not the gasses dissolved inside of it! Welp, my mind has been blown. I'm FINished. Respect to Ben for concisely explaining this and holding my ADHD brain's attention.
They could have ommited the first minute and a half because I'm certain none of us was wondering why we can't breathe the oxygen present in the molecule of water. Oxygen in air is nothing else than O2 diluted in a fluid (nitrogen), just as O2 is diluted in water; so if you ask me, saying basically that we can't breathe under water just because gills are different to lungs is a very poor explanation, because everybody knows that already
You didn;t mention the important thing about Fluorocarbons and why they failed. It gives you the oxygen, but there's no exchange with CO2, CO2 doesn't go out of your lungs with liquids
one time I was at swim lessons (so in the future I learn how to swim and don't drown) as usual when I went underwater to see a demonstration of a swim technique and then I like went underwater and decided to take a breath so story short I thought my dream physics applied to real life took in a huge inhale underwater and regretted it
2:20 Whales breathe air like us because their evolutionary ancestors never HAD gills in the first place - they were land animals. It also makes sense that gills would not be a viable option for a whale, but that is not why they don't have them. It's really just that that isn't the kind of animal that they are.
Haha... oh, man. You know what, Jack Skiezo? That's what I asked myself when I first came across it. Still, we want to tackle as many questions as possible. Thanks for watching!
I read a sci fi book once where they filled a space ship with a breathable liquid so that the ship could withstand Jupiter's pressure. I didn't know it was actually possible to breathe a liquid but I guess it makes sense, thanks for the vid!
Theoretically it could one day be possible to take the genes that give fish gills and put them into a human's DNA. But A) You'd have to find and figure out which genes= gills. It won't be all in one place, it'll probably be thousands of little pieces on different genes B) You'd have to figure out how to stitch all those pieces into human dna AND make sure you put them in the right spots, and C) The human cells would have to know how to use the genes once they got them. Probably impossible
I don't like the fact that you first use white as oxygen, black as hydrogen and grey as carbon. But later on when you are talking about water you mix everything up.
Think about it this way. You were in your mother's womb for 9 months and ( I think ) you were in liquid. If you were in there for 9 months with that liquid can't you adapt to it? (If you see this comment and say it's a dumb question, Please scroll down )
So could we attach a device that separates oxygen from air by the force of us breathing? maybe not enough to keep us alive but enough to use in a 3rd oxygen tank
There is a nano-filter respirator nearly ready for market now. Just a facemask with a double filter, and unlimited time underwater until the filters get clogged.
why do have people to ruin the best comments all the time? Jealous or something? (jealous is wrong for sure, my english sucks, but it doesn't matter atm,) There will be a time, you get your own Top-comment, i am sure dude ;)
people thinking they're too smart to watch this video and then post comments saying how stupid this video is, but still watch it because they dont know the answer x)
i breath underwater really well... when i asleep.. and dreaming...
jack hibbertOne same xD
Is it just me or did anyone else also notice the fact than Ben is reading from another source right next to the camera lens! :O
Daksh Arora he is
This is funny because I literally just finished reading the exact article, word for word on why humans can't breathe underwater. Having said so, it was nice to find a video that actually gave a verbal demonstration of the article. Gives more perspective and makes it easy to take in the information.
Great video overall. Thank you! :)
man thank you for answering my child hood question even tho i never even bother bought it back up for a while
You guys remember the movie The Abyss? There is a scene where the actor actually breathes that orange liquid in some kind of space suit looking thing.
I always look at my gold fish and ask myself why they like bubbles I know why now thanks
From The Straight Dope (website):
[Gills] are rather delicate, and their tremendous surface area (the main thing that makes them work so well) is dependent on being immersed in water to support their weight. Out of water, the gills collapse like wet tissue paper, and very little surface area is left exposed for gas exchange. Most fish, therefore, can only survive a short time out of water before oxygen deficiency catches up with them and they asphyxiate.
Hm.. Seems a bit fishy to me.
Took a year for me to notice this wet pun indeed...
Dolphins13718 lol.
More than half is oxygen. The other major elements are carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus. Minor elements are potassium, sulfur, sodium, chlorine, and magnesium. There are trace amounts of many other elements, some essential; most notably, iron.
Wow, I thought I knew where that was going, but you surprised me! Love it
Good to know. Thanks for the video. There are many other videos that seem like they would cover this in depth, but don't.
thank you so much! this helped me a lot with my Chemics Paper
I read somewhere your body only really needs to breath once every minute to get the correct amount of oxygen. The reason we breath so much is to rid our body of co2.
I think that's a cool analogy! It helped me understand!
Thanks, drhilltube! I really appreciate your time.
well the carbon dioxide is not really "dissolved" in the beverages like oxygen is dissolved in water - it exists in an chemical equilibrium and changes form CO2 + H2O back and forth with H2CO3 where oxygen dissolved in water just stays O2 and does not react with the H2O.
I was thinking about asking my friend's kids this after lockdown. A simple question with a very interesting answer. Cheers.
all i can say is, that i breath through my nose and i was on the bottom of the swimmingpool, about 1.5 meter deep. and i was moving very slow forwrads.
i could easely breath slowly, and i remember that if you devide your nose in to 2 parts
upper and lower part, that i breath through the upper part sort a say.
(sorry for my english)
*holds a glass of water over my head*
There, I'm breathing under water.
i was expecting him to say that it will go into your lung and you will drown and die i got way more information than i expected thats why i like this channel
do one about life in the womb and how baby's survive the nine months please.
I love your videos and all the new things I have learned.
um we can breath water inside of our embryo during child hood so why cant we now
"The Abyss" good movie that utilizes that concept positively!
Also, our bodies adapt to breath air filtered oxygen as we grow as we no longer need this attribute.
DeadliestPotato do newborns have it? Like day olds not months
Wrong.. We breathe it through the placenta tube.. We breathe through our own lungs
TakeAPill Ummm no that’s not how it works😂
\o3o/ I accomplished something today! Now if only I could stop procrastinating and accomplish finishing my homework -3-
Jasper, your kind comment made my day. Thanks a million!
Thanks Ben, love your work.
isn't "dissolved oxygen in water" the same as breathing water? just that they separate the O from the H2O? I don't understand what he means when he says they don't breathe water but the dissolved oxygen in water...
Made my evening bro :D
so elements are like people? All the same ingredients but all different?
Exactly
yeah but were we once in side our moms were mostly made out of water inside
How do gills of fish work?
I know why we cant breathe in underwater already.
Because we don't have a geels but fish has.
The geels means that can breathe underwater.
He said that there is 20x as much oxygen in the air. Some people live with only one lung. I would assume that would mean you'd have to have about 20 lungs.
i typed up how do fish drown underwater from spongebob but i got this i appreiciate your hard work explianing it to us god bless you man
Cool im doing stuff on tides And this is a cool add on thanks
I think that's a great idea, too. Thanks for posting!
The cold-blooded thing is a tangled problem.
i liked this explanation.
Idk if I was day dreaming or something because a few times I was in a pool under water I could take a few breaths through my nose then I tried to go back down and do it and wouldn't work
You are indeed first, lupic90. Congratulations!
@xmCism its possible, but we don't know what be consequences may be
i can breath under water, dont know if i can still doe it, but when i was younger i couldt breath, but after 2 min. i was scared so i went up, but there was no problem what so ever....
That crazy What’s going on with the technology today for deep-sea diving
doesnt the mantis shrimp punch so fast it forms air bubbles?we might be able to anything
Question! Why can't we breathe nitrogen? (Although technically a small % is inhaled when we breathe)
Nitrogen is mostly inert, because nitrogen molecules have a triple bond (incredibly hard to break), so we would need to put in a huge amount of effort to break it up.
OOh, Just mind blown ! THank you !
Well it’s probably best we stay on land it’s scary down there even in regular lakes
I always thought that fish breathed water -- not the gasses dissolved inside of it!
Welp, my mind has been blown. I'm FINished.
Respect to Ben for concisely explaining this and holding my ADHD brain's attention.
I just wanna breathe underwater so I can feel like Ariel dammit
I've got a question or two! How thin are bubbles? How strong are they?
Really interesting video. Could or has anyone had more than one heart or two lungs implanted?
And what about oxygenated water? Would that be enough to make someone breath oxygen disolved in liquid?
Hey what about water-births? The babies start swimming and stay underwater, but I really dunno how long.
They could have ommited the first minute and a half because I'm certain none of us was wondering why we can't breathe the oxygen present in the molecule of water. Oxygen in air is nothing else than O2 diluted in a fluid (nitrogen), just as O2 is diluted in water; so if you ask me, saying basically that we can't breathe under water just because gills are different to lungs is a very poor explanation, because everybody knows that already
You didn;t mention the important thing about Fluorocarbons and why they failed. It gives you the oxygen, but there's no exchange with CO2, CO2 doesn't go out of your lungs with liquids
one time I was at swim lessons (so in the future I learn how to swim and don't drown) as usual when I went underwater to see a demonstration of a swim technique and then I like went underwater and decided to take a breath so story short I thought my dream physics applied to real life took in a huge inhale underwater and regretted it
2:20 Whales breathe air like us because their evolutionary ancestors never HAD gills in the first place - they were land animals. It also makes sense that gills would not be a viable option for a whale, but that is not why they don't have them. It's really just that that isn't the kind of animal that they are.
what if some of us can, but they don't know cuz they never tried?
it would be cool if we also had gills since we first were fish, so we could breathe above water and under water. but our bodies are dumb
Thanks for watching, JJ!
Well done, thank you.
attractive chemistry guy teachin me about cool shit. nice.
so what if we had 4 lungs instead of two would that be enough mass to absorb the oxygen in the water...
Thank you 😊
I thought that Carbon Dioxide can't dissolve in water because it is non polar and water is polar?
then what liquid is used in sodas. they're all based on water. sure they have acids mixed in but not carbonated water.
Can you own breathe after neuromuscular blocking agent
awesome video
what about the other Animals that have the ability to breathe both under water and on land?
+방장군 Some amphibious fish are able to absorb oxygen directly through their skin, be it on land or in the water.
Now I'd like an explanation on why fish can't absorb oxygen out of the air since you claimed it's easier to do so.
what about the idea of super oxygenated water
Haha... oh, man. You know what, Jack Skiezo? That's what I asked myself when I first came across it. Still, we want to tackle as many questions as possible. Thanks for watching!
So how would mermaids work? Would they need to be cold-blooded? Is that possible?
I read a sci fi book once where they filled a space ship with a breathable liquid so that the ship could withstand Jupiter's pressure. I didn't know it was actually possible to breathe a liquid but I guess it makes sense, thanks for the vid!
What movie it is
@@chengalpattugodsatsang555 It's a book. I think it was Jupiter by Ben Bova
@@ybor363 thanks dude
They are normally still connected with the umbilical cord.
Great video, great info! :-) Thank you!
Could u guys possibly do a question having to do with halo?
It's funny you mention that. We were just talking about Halo the other day in the office. What would you like us to look into?
Possibly how a MJOLNIR spartan suit works... Or something about slip space.
BrainStuff - HowStuffWorks no do it on Evangelion
"Humans can survive under water... just not for very long."
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Fact Core
I am from India
This question seems to be stupid and no one answers this
Thanks to you
ill think of a better comment to comment later, either way great videos. :D
is it posible? or do you just have to lern to hold your breth insted?
im tring to be a mermaid
Theoretically it could one day be possible to take the genes that give fish gills and put them into a human's DNA. But A) You'd have to find and figure out which genes= gills. It won't be all in one place, it'll probably be thousands of little pieces on different genes B) You'd have to figure out how to stitch all those pieces into human dna AND make sure you put them in the right spots, and C) The human cells would have to know how to use the genes once they got them. Probably impossible
Im extraordinary, lets go try this out...
I don't like the fact that you first use white as oxygen, black as hydrogen and grey as carbon. But later on when you are talking about water you mix everything up.
Hey Ben, I'm typing this message to you from inside my giant fish bowl. I managed to breathe the water now Ben, explain that.
Here's where it gets crazy ... you can!
Which elements are humans made up of.
Think about it this way. You were in your mother's womb for 9 months and ( I think ) you were in liquid. If you were in there for 9 months with that liquid can't you adapt to it?
(If you see this comment and say it's a dumb question, Please scroll down )
I'll get a friend to breath under water. I'll just poke him with a knife on whatever is facing out of water so he'll breath.
Thomas Garcia that makes no sense
So could we attach a device that separates oxygen from air by the force of us breathing? maybe not enough to keep us alive but enough to use in a 3rd oxygen tank
There is a nano-filter respirator nearly ready for market now. Just a facemask with a double filter, and unlimited time underwater until the filters get clogged.
Thanks :)
This is better then Asap science
Kai-lee reed olson not true asap is still my fav science channel
Amen bro ;) Good old Ritsuko Akagi
isnt this the guy from the 'Stuff they dont want you to know' channel?
My cousin died because of your video. He thought he could breath underwater because he was an extraordinary person but instead he drowned.
almost everybody is posting mean or rude comments
What about the new warm blooded fish could studying this fish help us learn how to breath under water light weight scuba status
Let me prove I can breathe underwater. Here:
*** drowns ***
why do have people to ruin the best comments all the time?
Jealous or something? (jealous is wrong for sure, my english sucks, but it doesn't matter atm,)
There will be a time, you get your own Top-comment, i am sure dude ;)
I did that on a axodent once
i know all that, but would it theoretically work?
Who would try breathing cfc's?!