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>>...prioritize iron formation in the blood over creating new _-_-cytochrome-_-_ C oxidase since transporting oxygen to cells is more important than running the Krebs cycle at full speed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytochrome

Whats really interesting to me is the above statement related to a longtime conspiracy-curriosity about the 'Russian kid from Mars' ala an 'Indigo Child' and when back in the ~1990s or some time when he was interviewed, he was ~10 years old and he said that "Humans came from Mars, and after we got to earth, is when we started to age - because Earth is oxigen based, and breathing oxygen is what makes you age."

And this crazy piece talks about the iron found in the martian atmosphere:

http://www.nuclearplanet.com/Martian%20Iron.html

>>The atmosphere of Mars is 95.7% carbon dioxide (CO2), which is available everywhere at the surface and which can readily be compressed. The Martian carbon dioxide can be, simultaneously, a source of carbon monoxide (CO) and a source of oxygen (O2) through the thermal decomposition reaction:

                                                                                    >>*2 CO2 → 2 CO + O2                                                                  (20.2)*
>>Reaction Eq. (20.2) requires a temperature of about 1100C. Note that the iron reduction reaction Eq. (20.1) can take place at about 700C, but a higher temperature, such as 900C, would be desirable.

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What happens if a Nuke goes off in the Martian atmosphere?



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