finaardGeorge Goble died recently – known for first dual-CPU-Unix and fast BBQ lighting
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/wlfi/name/george-goble-obituary?id=61144779
Lighting a charcoal grill with liquid oxygen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjPxDOEdsX8
Lighting a charcoal grill with liquid oxygen
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.
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)
