> > 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...
Oh for Pete's sake.
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