The ancient Greeks had one single word for both medicine and poison, with the understanding that it was essentially all a question of dosage. That amount cures, but that amount kills.

Oxygen is the third most abundant element in the universe. How could any alien life not have familiarity with it?

so they don't even check the being biochemistery before inviting them into their ship? those alien are pretty careless, any alien could be walking poison

“What is there that is not poison? All things are poison and nothing is without poison. Solely the dose determines that a thing is not a poison,” - Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, or Paracelsus, father of Toxicology

Actually we breath air, but use the O2 for life. Air is 78% nitrogen, 20.9 % oxygen, .005 % carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, ozone, pollution etc.

Funny how close Earth was to flat-out saying: screw you guys, im taking my toxic flammable gas and going home!

How can they not survive oxygen dispite having chlorophyll?

Oxygen is fairly common in the universe, draining Earth's atmosphere to give to aliens would be highly detrimental to life here. Since water is very abundant you could split it to get oxygen.

Do the aliens not have spectrometers?

How did the Aliens not know humans breath oxygen? This Council even has files on how we metabolize it.

Hard to imagine a suite of advanced species wouldn't have r even a passing familiarity with one of the most abundant elements in the universe. I know it's sci fi but good sci fi extrapolates science, it doesn't ignore it.

It's a cool idea, but I would point out that harvesting water from comets and getting oxygen from there is better than going to the Earth for it all.

Wait until the aliens learn what snipe hunting is from a human who is annoyed with them by their questions.

Unless an atmosphere is at least 16% oxygen, fire isn’t possible which would make it hard to evolve beyond a Stone Age.

Ridiculous. You broke my suspension of disbelief. Don’t treat me as if I’m 10 years old.

Any molecule that has Oxygen in it can be undone to it's base elements.

I don’t get why the digital communication was cut for the quarantine. What, am I going to text them a plague?

In the process of setting up the database of languages for the Humans' and aliens' translators... both sides somehow missed all the other info such as what gasses each race can tolerate? This set up could work if we were given a reason why both side would know next to nothing about one another while having the language barrier broken for them... Like... What if both the humans and aliens were ALL abductees dropped off into a gameshow-esque interconnected network of habitats.

Also, salt is made up of two compounds that could kill any living thing if taken by themselves, which is crazy since salt is basically one of the biggest discoveries for nourishment in our history of hunting/cooking.

I can roll with that aliens could be working on different chemistry, but Oxygen is a super common element. Even if they avoided it as dangerous, their science would have had to studied it for all sorts of uses along any other elements.

Why was that not looked into with the years of planning?

Thank you. Also: you should Mark your thumbnails as "human read". It's just my taste but I imagine I am not the only one who preferes human narratores over sterile AI voices. ❤

13:31 The atmosphere on earth is only 21% oxygen. I don’t think 21% is very high.

The quarantine protocol was a bit much. Sealing the air exchange? Fine. Locking comms? What? Then again we on earth had comms lock a while back about certain info. Still stupid but remembered. I hope we don't forget.

The alien prejudice against oxygen breathers is responsible for the 'disastrous' first contact situation.

Im sorry, I just have difficulty suspending disbelief when the author does not know the difference between a biohazard/bioweapon and a Chemical hazard/weapon. Oxygen is a chemical, it is not biological.

Always love stories like these where super simple things that we don't ever think much about, end up being extreme deciding factors.

why would they not have more oxygen then just a short duration of a few hours for talks that could take weeks?

kind of a massive plot hole, but how exactly did these human diplomats plan on interacting with the council if the atmosphere in the room isn't breathable for humans

Very entertaining thank you,keep them coming!

Supposedly they had meticulous planning for this meeting but atmospheric needs were never discussed? I get its a story but hard to accept super smart space travel but super dumb basics of life.

"The lungs of the galaxy" That's so badass.

Why export atmosphere instead of seeds?

Thank you for being a human and reading this nice story. 👍

Even in Stargate they kept checking the atmosphere before entering, and that was a covert comedy show. I briefly followed the HFY genre until I realized that "HFY" is just a euphemism for "widely grinning US politician widely grins while bombing a foreign planet and then grins widely", but this shit really takes the cake.

First video of this channel I've watched and already know I'm gonna love it here!

This is about as credible as Spaceballs 😂 exporting the planets atmosphere, are these aliens all water free? Who waters the plants

Sorrry, I tried to llisten the story fully but the first couple of inutes of the narraitive turn me off. First why the ove rreaction to oxygen from the council... even if every member bology tcosider O2 as poisonus, as space faring species ttheir tec should be prepared for that type of environments. And secondly, the council despite Having 'FIrst conact' protocols, those protocols don:t cosider environmental analisys and biological requrements of the memeber spicies to be welcomed??? that is plainly stupid

I so want to find out what happens when the humans 'adjust' their exports.

i tried to listen to this one but it was just bad story telling by the author, not the narrator, just to be clear

As someone named Alex: I feel like KZfaq is threatening me by recommending this rn

"...Years of meticulous preparations... " and no one checked who breathes what?

Aliens:they breathe oxygen? Eminem:aint me

Pls make another one that was really cool

The premiss of this story doesn't make much sense when Oxygen is the third most abundant element in the universe. Shoot, there are whole gas nebulas of the stuff in our galaxy. A perfect example of this in another story is Larry Niven's The Integral Trees.

I enjoyed this alot

I like the story. I think it has interesting ideas.

The question is, how did the humans expect to breath? Like if Oxygen, or at least the concentration we have in our atmosphere, is deadly to any other species, then they'd need to be wearing spacesuits.

This story doesn't work for me, sorry. Too much fiction, not enough science. Quite illogical.

The person who wrote this must have just learned the term "begrudgingly" and decided to use it at every single possible moment 😂

Is there more to this story somewhere? I would love to find out what happens next.

For your information, Starbound is the name of a video game by Chucklefish. (Funny thing is, im playing it rn while listening to different storries like this)

Give it away and what do we breath?

“Yes, but we exhale Carbon.”

The issue wasnt really the o2 levels in the pod, it was the co2 that would poison us faster

The AI slop art is a little bit over the top but it is such a breath of fresh air to hear a real person read these stories instead of that same narrator voice model every channel uses.

A very hard to believe story

the first shot is always free

So is there a 2nd part to the story?? You kinda left us hanging

Finally i found a human doing these

If we export oxygen in this story then how we make new one? We also need oxygen to live. Maybe by fusion?

Not only do they breathe Oxygen but they also drink H2O ! 😲😨😱 The Horror, The HORROR ! 😱☠💀👻

Imagine aliens wouldn't come because oxygen was toxic for them. I remember grunts from halo wearing these airtanks on their back because oxygen was toxic for them.

Is there another part of this? I want to know what’s going on

7:48 how could the counsel not know humans breathe oxygen? They would study each other. Could be good but you would have to remove them wanting to join the counsel and just make it first contact instead.

This makes no sense... they are in a room where they clearly breath oxygen, which is basically everywhere anyway, but are then quarantined from the room because of ... oxygen contamination. Er.. What?!

we were born to inherit the stars

5:27 I wonder what human biochemistry is classified? Oh wait ...

Why not mine the gas giants or oort cloud?

you make said like we breath in 100% oxygen , we mainly inhale nitrogen at 78% oxygen 21% 0.9percent is argon, and 0.1 other gasses like carbon dioxide ,methane water vapers and neon . one quick gogle search i knew about nitrogen and methane but not the others water vaper is a given since like hang on google searching since we have 71% water on land and the ocean holds 96.5 %? fwell thats confusing

Technically we are nitrogen breathers who consume oxygen...

Its kinda funny, since too much oxygen is toxic to us as well.

4Great story.

is there a sequel?

Part 2?

where is the co2 coming from to be converted into all that o2?

Are any of these stories in any kind of order I can't seem to figure this out

Wait till they encounter Beavis and Butthead.

While I could see alien races being surprised to learn of life adapted to an oxygen rich atmosphere I don't believe they could be so naïve to oxygen's potential uses. Humanity has long experimented and found uses for elements and chemicals that are extremely toxic to ourselves. Many such substances are now necessary in our manufacturing, medical and scientific industries. I don't see how an intelligent species could achieve the technological knowledge required to become a space faring civilization without some willingness to experiment with toxic substances.

5:07 "revolutionized by exposure to oxygen" ok, this could be in fact, a brilliant idea especially as someone in the comments said that o2 is highly reactive and therefore good for high energy systems. If they are running off of something else (which should make their air unbreathable to humans but we'll ignore that for now) then it is possible that their systems are running at a low energy. It might adapt to running off oxygen in the same way that some blue-green bacteria can switch from sulphur compounds in the depths of the ocean to running off carbon di-oxide if exposed to sunlight. Maybe if they ran off oxygen, they would have a little more imagination and could have prevented this atmosphere muddle in the first place. Except of course, how would they know o2 is toxic to them if they hadn't watched someone die in an industrial accident from o2 exposure? Logic please!!! It would be one thing if o2 was unknown to them at all. Like if they arrived at a low tech planet struggling on sulphur and all you do is add some blue green bacteria to get o2 in the atmosphere and the people become geniuses and it kicks off a technological revolution with tool-making etc. lol. 8:42 Ok, to be fair to the aliens, o2 is actually toxic in that in our own biochemistry, it can generate something called Reactive Oxygen Species which can be damaging to DNA and other cellular components if left floating around unchecked. So I am going to revise what I said earlier. Their systems may very well be able to run off o2 but it is possible they never evolved the biochemical systems to process the toxic byproducts. If that is the case, then some serious genetic engineering has to happen for them to have those systems too

Is this a stand alone story or part of a series?

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What if they evolved to planets that doesn’t use oxygen as a base element, but instead an element similar, but different so much so that Oxygen is a much more dangerous variant.

chlorophyll rich skin? they know what chlorophyll does dont they?

why on earth would we sell oxygen. they can make it themselves from water through electrolysis. water and oxygen exist everywhere within our universe.

fuck the galaxy

I would prefer if you'd use human-art. I'm actively looking for creators who don't lean on ai content generation, and your vocal work and audio processing are great

poor ending , as if it was set up for 2ed chapter , put not given

Oxygen the life supporting gas is also slowly killing even us constantly introducing freeradical in to our bodies witch are harmful to us The thing that helps us live is also killing and increases the speed of which we age

30 minute video, nine ads...

This is a zinc story

14:16 "It was difficult to label a species as a threat when their very breath held the potential to heal your sick, power your cities, or revolutionize your industry." So in this story, we have God's life-giving breath but for aliens. I guess, in this story, God making us in his image is actually true.

Oooooh a real reader instead of AI, that's a sub.

idk, lots of plot holes. how the fuck any civilization reaches interstellar level withouth discovering fire before?

Will there be a part 2? And for those using science as a cudgel on your stories: please remind them all that FICTION is an important part of the genre. By the way, where do your stories come from?

Who actually has the time of this 'me'

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i'd like to listen to it, but there is an advert every 60 seconds.. screw that.

While the basic story is good, the science plotholes are so big that it is often difficult to ignore. I had to keep stopping to roll my eyes. lol. For example, as someone who did botany, the line at 13:30 "unique plant species adapted to earth's high oxygen atmosphere" stopped me in my tracks. They made it sound like not all plants are adapted to earth's atmosphere. I had to wonder if the writer of this story is somehow unaware that plants ARE the reason for the high oxygen atmosphere???? Or were these alien plants who don't produce o2 in which case shouldn't they be called something else? Please, if you are going to write science fiction, you do need to have actual science in it. It doesn't mean that you can make fictional science. Well you can but only if you are on the fringes of scientific theory. Not at the basic level of science like oxygen and elements of the periodic table found everywhere in the universe. Instead, it would be more believable to say that some chemical in say, apple juice became so prized because some hard to replicate chemical was in it and it was the only cure for some alien disease. And since apple trees don't grow well on other planets or stop synthesizing the chemical because soil, air and solar conditions don't line up, then earth becomes the only source.

nice fantazy