[HPsquared]

Rust's a Must, by T.R.B. Watson:

""" Mighty ships upon the ocean

Suffer from severe corrosion

Even those that stay at dockside

Are rapidly becoming oxide.

Alas, that piling in the sea

Is mostly FE2O3

And when the ocean meets the shore,

You'll find there's FE3O4.

'Cause when the wind is salt and gusty

Things are getting awful rusty

We can measure it, we can test it

We can halt it or arrest it

We can gather it and weigh it

We can coat it, we can spray it

We can examine and dissect it

We can cathodically protect it

We can pick it up and drop it

But heaven knows, we'll never stop it.

So here's to rust: No doubt about it,

Most of us would starve without it. """

[pygy_]

I have a song about this (in French) sung from the vantage point of near future robots.

https://soundcloud.com/user-876103472/lennui-cest-loxyge-ne

Long story short: screw the meatbags, let's get rid of atmospheric oxygen...