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> > Every single atom in our bodies were created by the death of a giant star, likely
> > billions of light years away from where we are today. That's just fucked up, yet
> > really cool.
>
> The Sun is a third generation star, according to the current Big Bang theorical model
> and to the Sun Standard Model. That means:
> * It all started with a big bang.
> * One big star was created, which went supernova.
> * The remnants of the supernova form another smaller star, about 4-5 times the mass
> of the Sun. Which again goes supernova.
> * The remnants of that second supernova form the current Solar System.
>
> So the Sun is the grandchild of one of the earlier stars of our universe.
>
> Note that all heavy elements (anything beyond iron) can't be formed by normal means
> of nuclear fusion in the inside of a star; the star must went supernova to create the
> appropiate environment of pressure/temperature to form those elements. So we all are
> stardust. Now it's kind of common to find nerds knowing this (imagine me just like
> Scott Pilgrim trying to hit on Ramona with the Pacman/Puckman story but with the
> stardust thingy).
>
> But we can go further than that. Bound neutrons and protons inside atom nuclei have
> really long lifes; for protons it seems to be longer than the age of the universe. So
> some of the particles we are made of are as old as the universe; as well as the
> particles that make those particles like quarks, muons and whatnot.
>
> Another common misconception is that we live in a simple spiral galaxy with two arms.
> Not at all, we live in the most common galaxy shape, a barred galaxy. In a spiral
> galaxy, two or more arms stem from the globular center. In a barred galaxy, a quite
> visible bar about two-three times the width of the globular center appears, and the
> arms stem from both ends of the bar. We don't see it visibly because we get only the
> profile of the Milky Way. We are not even in one of the main two arms, but in a very
> small, short arm between one of the main arms and a secondary arm.
>
> Besides moving around the galaxy center, the sun also rotates around the arm's
> gravity center. If you'd saw the Milky Way's profile from outside, you'd see the Sun
> going up and down the arm in cycles of approximately 60 million years. That means the
> Sun crosses the arm's nebular dust every 28-30 million years approximately... Hold on
> that. Although paleontologic studies have a known error for detecting massive
> extinction events, the events to be known to have occurred in a specific date (which
> could span itself thousands or even a million years) show a pattern. It seems that
> most of every minor and major massive extintion event occurs every 27-32 million
> years, and nicely fits the times when the Sun crosses the arm.
>
> Ok now I'm going to create a report of how the foldings inside a vagina can be
> calculated with a fractal formula feeding it with some Zodiac variables of the
> vagina's owner. I will maintain you informed of this scientific "breakthrough".

So, basically...