Staggeringly Amazing
There is a little internet add-on that I have attached to my Firefox browser. It is called StumbleUpon™.
It is a random website generator. Well, not completely random; you set your interest parameters and it does the rest, roulette-style.
Every day I am dazzled by what humans can do. Guess what I found out from this excellent science site?
When we take a deep breath there are more molecules of gas in our lungs than there are stars in the universe. It's true; just a couple of litres of air that you breathe in contains more molecules of nitrogen and oxygen than we think there are stars in the known universe. There are a gob-smacking 50 million (50 x 10^12) molecules in the lungs of every person on Earth. And when you breathe them out they all get mixed up in the air around you. So each of us, every time we breathe, is taking in a few molecules that have been breathed previously by everyone, and everything, that's ever lived!
Wowsers.
It is a random website generator. Well, not completely random; you set your interest parameters and it does the rest, roulette-style.
Every day I am dazzled by what humans can do. Guess what I found out from this excellent science site?
When we take a deep breath there are more molecules of gas in our lungs than there are stars in the universe. It's true; just a couple of litres of air that you breathe in contains more molecules of nitrogen and oxygen than we think there are stars in the known universe. There are a gob-smacking 50 million (50 x 10^12) molecules in the lungs of every person on Earth. And when you breathe them out they all get mixed up in the air around you. So each of us, every time we breathe, is taking in a few molecules that have been breathed previously by everyone, and everything, that's ever lived!
Wowsers.
posted by Comrade Chicken at
8:15 p.m.
2 Comments:
I like to see you writing again, lovie, and, as always, your observations make the sunlight that much brighter in my day, but they actually guesstimate that there are 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars in the universe; give or take.
They imagine there to be about 50,000,000,000,000 galaxies though.
Hope you're well.
By
M. Spider, at 2:12 a.m.
Little known fact:
An inordinate number of my personal friends are Mensa smart. It does take the romance out of the things, though.
R.L. is duì, as they say in Mandarin. And if it were to be put somehow tangibly, there are more stars than there is sand in all of Earth's deserts and beaches combined.
Darling, I'll be on your side of the world soon! Do you have your scuba license? We could do an Indonesian trip-trip together!
By
Comrade Chicken, at 8:18 a.m.
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