A fan wants to know what would happen if we added frozen oxygen from space to Earth's atmosphere like in an episode of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century ("Twiki is Missing" Episode 118, 1/31/80). Once Neil deGrasse Tyson and Eugene Mirman stop laughing, Neil explains why adding oxygen would be a bad idea (imagine the Apollo 1 capsule fire on a much larger scale), why it's not necessary but how we could easily get oxygen should we need it, and explains why the word "Spaceberg" makes as little sense as the idea the Buck Rogers writers came up with.
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