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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Elemental iron is star poison.

We are star poison Death Metal band style logo

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

grumpy I guess

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Tell me more about primordial hydrogen?!

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There's stardust all over my basement walls 😌

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Stardust got everywhere...

[–] [email protected] 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

[–] [email protected] 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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

And probably cold, too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I learned this from Professor Moby.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago