[tantalor]

Lighting a charcoal grill with liquid oxygen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjPxDOEdsX8

[sponaugle]

I was holding the camera for some of these videos. Such a great time!

[ForOldHack]

GOOD GOD! you know that 1 oz of LoX + 1 charcoal briquette = 1 stick of dynomite. I am so glad that only grills were hurt, and a few camera lenses as the sky went dark on the video, because the light was SO BRIGHT.

I am glad to have been 100s of miles away.

Thank you for your work, and of corse for the many many laughs.

[gorgoiler]

It reminds me of a comment I once read about how alien visitors, upon arriving on Earth, would be appalled to see how we live our lives at the bottom of a giant gaseous ocean of 20% oxygen.

Almost everyone and everything around us of any importance is one mishap away from going disappearing in a hot, sooty flame.

[dekhn]

For another perspective on this, see the book Shroud (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shroud_(Tchaikovsky_novel)), there is all sorts of nifty commentary on oxygen related to your point.

(it's a great book in general, but the bit about our use of a volatile gas for a living environment is pretty neat)

[mjd]

Arthur Clarke's “Report on Planet Three” touches on this.