billvon 3,088 #1 March 27, 2002 I was just thinking about this . . . We are all made up of a smorgasbord of elements, from hydrogen to selenium, in varying concentrations. All of these elements came from the cloud that the solar system condensed out of. A lot of it was hydrogen, which has been around since the Big Bang (63% of our bodies is hydrogen by molar concentration.) Most of the rest (oxygen, nitrogen, carbon) came from stellar combustion, from the ancient stars and protostars that created the gas clouds that our solar system came from. These stars burned hydrogen to helium, then when they ran out of that, started burning helium to carbon, and helium+carbon to oxygen. Some huge stars actually got to the silicon-burning phase, where they burned silicon to iron, phosphorous and nitrogen. These stars burned at an amazing 2 billion degrees K, compared to our sun's measly 10 million K.Problem is, stars can't fuse any element heavier than iron, even though we have significant amounts of iodine, zinc, selenium etc in us - all of which are heavier, by atomic weight, than iron. The only way to get those elements is during the incredible pressures, temperatures and neutron fluxes of a supernova.So, in a very real way, we're made of the ashes of ancient stars and supernovas. That old song "we are stardust" wasn't too far off. Kinda cool.-bill von Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PhillyKev 0 #2 March 27, 2002 Wow, drop a lot of acid, do you?cielos azules y cerveza fría-Kevin Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkydiveMonkey 0 #3 March 27, 2002 ashes to ashes, dust to dust.... said for a reason. I'm not crazy - I'm a Skydiver Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AndyMan 7 #4 March 27, 2002 we are stardust.we are golden,we are caught in the devils bargarin...and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden._AmICQ: 5578907MSN Messenger: andrewdmetcalfe at hotmail dot com AIM: andrewdmetcalfeYahoo IM: ametcalf_1999 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hooked 0 #5 March 27, 2002 "I was just thinking about this".......Geez, I doubt if that thought ever entered my mind before, but it's there now, thanks!J Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Viking 0 #6 March 27, 2002 wow you must have been VERY bored!!!I swear you must have footprints on the back of your helmet - chicagoskydiver Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sebazz1 2 #7 March 27, 2002 Bill if you are ever in the SF bay area, serious give me a call I'd love to grab a beer..........Nice thoughts..........SEBAZZ....... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflir29 0 #8 March 27, 2002 I was just thinking the EXACT same thing......NOT!!!!! Get help man! Get help........"I have 145 jumps so I don't even know how to pull yet."-Clay Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 3,088 #9 March 27, 2002 >wow you must have been VERY bored!!!No, just normal-bored. You should see the stuff I come up with when I'm very bored. I remember one combination water electrolyzer/tennis ball cannon I built once at school . . .-bill von Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skybytch 273 #10 March 28, 2002 mmmm.... brains turn me on..... pull & flare,lisa"But our reality is in fact entire illusion!"-Gregory Benford Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflir29 0 #11 March 28, 2002 Quotemmmm.... brains turn me on.....I have one..... How do you think I breath????"I have 145 jumps so I don't even know how to pull yet."-Clay Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkySurfSnow 0 #12 March 28, 2002 Expanding on the nerdy thought going the other wayWhat if our solar systems and galaxies are just like atoms and molecules as part of a larger whole...and we are like quarks and mesons? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skybytch 273 #13 March 28, 2002 Okay, let me revise that.mmmm.... high IQ's turn me on....pull & flare,lisa"But our reality is in fact entire illusion!"-Gregory Benford Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflir29 0 #14 March 28, 2002 Quotemmmm.... high IQ's turn me on....Got ya there too. (Believe it or not) Not quite in the genius range like my sister but above average. Bitch stole all the good genes I guess. She was first born so I guess she had first dibs...."I have 145 jumps so I don't even know how to pull yet."-Clay Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
QuickDraw 0 #15 March 28, 2002 Then you'll positively love the dude's on this site..Billions of people living out their lives..Oblivious.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skybytch 273 #16 March 28, 2002 Okay... revising again...mmm... guys with high IQ's who talk about obscure subjects turn me on....pull & flare,lisa"But our reality is in fact entire illusion!"-Gregory Benford Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skymama 37 #17 March 28, 2002 Golly, Bill, I can honestly say that a thought like that will never cross my mind. Now I'm going to go back and reread it, and try to understand it, like most of your posts. AndreaThe brave may not live forever, but the timid may not live at all. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflir29 0 #18 March 28, 2002 Quoteguys with high IQ's who talk about obscure subjects turn me on....Bring it on woman!!! You guys just think you know me.....http://www.7pillars.com/papers1.htmlSee how many of those papers you can get through without your head exploding...."I have 145 jumps so I don't even know how to pull yet."-Clay Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skybytch 273 #19 March 28, 2002 Okay. Last try then I'm going home.mmm... guys with IQ's higher than mine who talk about obscure subjects other than those related to defense turn me on....pull & flare,lisa"But our reality is in fact entire illusion!"-Gregory Benford Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Magistr8 0 #20 March 28, 2002 Wow these are the things that I think about at work only on an IT level. What if our border routers had this type of encryption on them and we slapped this sorta ACL on it would we be able to prevent these people from getting access to this but others to it. Sometimes I get carried away and write down my ideas for 30 - 40 mins in my word docs are read them later to find out if there was any sense behind them or I was just getting carried away and getting excited.Ahem. Boobies. Who ever said comming down from a high was bad obviously never tried this.Magistr8 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FallingMarc 0 #21 March 28, 2002 Sounds like some of the stuff I come up with when I'm sitting around... I have a paragraph written in one of my class notebooks that I wrote between classes one time last year, after an unusually depressing week or so. I don't know what happened to it but it was something about the incomprehensible amount of individual photons of light leaving the sun, and the fact that there's a few of them that traveled all the way here, dodged clouds and buildings to make it to the one I was in, forced its way through some dirty glass, bounced off the floor and into my eye. And after that 8.5 minute journey at light speed, and all that trouble, all it accomplished was to make me squint.Well, it entertained me for a while.M Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Viking 0 #22 March 28, 2002 I swear you must have footprints on the back of your helmet - chicagoskydiver Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Magistr8 0 #23 March 28, 2002 Hey Lisa:Your really narrowing the field on us here. Pretty soon you'll have to settle for regular guys who don't jump from planes and talk about boobies, sex and drink beer every weekend.Wait a minute I just realized that you have just opened up a whole new market. Who ever said comming down from a high was bad obviously never tried this.Magistr8 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflir29 0 #24 March 28, 2002 Quotemmm... guys with IQ's higher than mine who talk about obscure subjects other than those related to defense turn me on....Geez...just like a woman......."I have 145 jumps so I always jump with a JM so he can pull for me."-Clay Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 3,088 #25 March 28, 2002 Even more scary are the incredible number of neutrinos that pass right through your body, every day. It's just plain luck that they miss the important stuff in your body (i.e. the actual matter) 99.999% of the time.-bill von Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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