No wonder we feel so old in the mornings.
It takes 10 million years for the average star to form, then it lives for 10 billion years before exploding, creating a planetary nebula. Our Sun is a second generation star (first gen stars only burn helium and hydrogen while our sun contains some heavier metals which it does not have the capacity to create without going supernova (meaning it cannot have been a first timer)). The typical planetary nebula is approximately 1 lightyear across (9.461 trillion km), so the chances are better than average that the elements that make you were exploded from somewhere in the vicinity of our current solar system in order to coalesce to form it. The universe is approximately 16 billion years old and began by spewing helium hydrogen and lithium in every direction, so those elements in your body probably came from the big bang, while your oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus in comparison are only approximately 5 billion years old and came from the star that died to form this solar system.
No wonder we feel so old in the mornings. I've confusened my first human this morning...
I says, "Good morning. Did you have a nice weekend?" They says, "I did, thankyou." "Well, I can't take all the credit, some of it was you." "What?" "I only control the weather." "What?" "Nevermind..." I'm not trying to cause a problem, merely posing a hypothetical scenario that may be far less hypothetical than one may at first consider... try this on:
In the original Hebrew version of the Old Testament a phrase pops up; Tohu wa bohu. It has been translated in the best way possible because it really doesn't have a proper English equivalent. In early Genesis it's taken to mean 'without form and empty' however the phrase crops up 20 other times in the OT and sometimes eludes to a state of chaos, or an uninhabitable state, sometimes it means lacking (missing something) and sometimes it means arid or unproductive. What if tohu wa bohu (which describes the condition of the earth before god says "Let there be light) has been mistranslated? What if it simply meant that the earth was in a state of chaos unfit to support life? Both the Babylonian creation account and the Canaanite one describe the battles between a god and the forces of chaos prior to the god making the joint habitable for humans... maybe, just maybe, with all of the creation stories happening around the same time in the same little pocket of the world, this is what 'tohu wa bohu' is referring to; an earth not ready to sustain the living, aka a primordial state. Wouldn't this mean the beginning is not actually the beginning at all? Hypothetically, you understand... I'm not attacking the bible, or God, I'm simply asking if it's conceivable that there could be a translation error between a phrase that has no English equivalent, and the words we've tried to use as substitutes. I'm having one of those where I'm accidentally drawing on everything. I have ink on my face, on my desk, arms, hands, and I tried to find the positive in this; at least I'm not a tattooist.
I love complimenting people, but I've never been comfortable complimenting their skin. Just feels too Buffalo Bill from 'Silence of the Lambs'.
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