MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Professor Pi enters omg-so-really-pedantic mode

> 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".

Wound up, can't sleep, can't do anything right, little honey / Oh, since I set my eyes on you. / I tell you the truth.
I can't get it right / Get it right / Since I met you...