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[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 45 points 2 months ago

Elemental iron is star poison.

We are star poison Death Metal band style logo

[-] simonweiss@lemmy.ml 40 points 2 months ago
[-] Eheran@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Incorrect, the hydrogen is mostly from the big bang. Not to mention that neutron star mergers produced a while lot of the heavier stuff.

[-] tate@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 2 months ago

If that hydrogen was previously incorporated in a star, I think it's fair to call it stardust. That's very likely, since our solar system would have formed from a relatively dense cloud of the remnants of earlier stars, with just a smidge of primordial hydrogen mixed in.

[-] Eheran@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

grumpy I guess

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Tell me more about primordial hydrogen?!

[-] tate@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 months ago

All of the hydrogen was created at the initial cooling of the big bang. In this case what I mean by primordial, is that it was never part of a larger composite object like a star.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago

It just means the remnants of the Big Bang that mostly created hydrogen, helium, and lithium. There's nothing particularly special about it other than the possibility that it is as old as creation because there are stable isotopes.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I also like the science behind particles like neutrinos blasting their way through everything in space and matter, even through our own bodies and cells. Every once in a while, one of those tiny particles hits a piece of DNA at just the right spot to cause a chain reaction that leads to a new minor or major mutation in the next generation. It's generally thought that this kind of physics is one of forces that drive evolution of all lifeforms on our planet.

We are made of star stuff ..... and we are and will always be affected by star energy.

[-] SandmanXC@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago

There's stardust all over my basement walls ๐Ÿ˜Œ

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 23 points 2 months ago

We are stardust, we are golden, we are billion year old carbon, and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Joni Mitchell

[-] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 23 points 2 months ago

Wait till this person finds out about basically every other element they're made of

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 8 points 2 months ago

This made me look up what the actual ratios of elemental composition in the human body are, and I learned we're 67% oxygen by atomic mass, which makes sense, with only 9.5% hydrogen, but I still find that idea that we're mostly oxygen oddly upsetting.

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

dont tell emos that there is a dead star inside them, they are already having a difficult time as is

[-] Window_Error_Noises@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

Shit, dude. My iron was at 2 after my last blood test. They keep pumping me full of star stuff--pow, straight in the veins--and I just keep burning through it. Why, stars, why! Why does thou forsake me! I am very tired, stars.

[-] flicker@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

And probably cold, too.

[-] Hestia@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

I've heard this so many fucking times I want to blow up the sun so I never have to hear it again.

[-] brianary@startrek.website 6 points 2 months ago

I learned this from Professor Moby.

[-] aspensmonster@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 months ago
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