Topic: Why can't we breath underwater?
Anonymous A started this discussion 14 years ago #17,288
There's oxygen in the water already. Fuck you God for not giving us gills.
green !6PPj7P5Iag joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 1 hour later[^] [v] #292,421
Inb4 troll. When the sea creatures eons ago, came on land, they adapted to breathe the compounds in air, and not water. It's been billions of years since our ancestors were in water. We've grown accustome to the compounds in air (which is 78% nitrogen and only a small amount of oxygen iirc). If we tried to breathe in the vast quantity of hydrogen in water; we'd die. Just my take on it.
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@292,422 (A)
You can train your lungs to pull dissolved oxygen out of water like fish do with their gills. It just takes practice. Fill your bathtub with lukewarm water, submerge your head, and take a deep breath. It won't work at first, and you'll probably end up coughing and choking for a while. If you keep trying, however, you will eventually be able to breathe water. The trick is not to be discouraged at first. Give your lungs time to adapt to extracting oxygen from water rather than air. Just keep trying.
All it takes it practice and hard work. :D
You can train your lungs to pull dissolved oxygen out of water like fish do with their gills. It just takes practice. Fill your bathtub with lukewarm water, submerge your head, and take a deep breath. It won't work at first, and you'll probably end up coughing and choking for a while. If you keep trying, however, you will eventually be able to breathe water. The trick is not to be discouraged at first. Give your lungs time to adapt to extracting oxygen from water rather than air. Just keep trying.
All it takes it practice and hard work. :D
