According to this article, The age of water on Earth is about 4.5 billion years old, as old as the Solar System itself. It started off in space, forming on tiny dust particles.
As the Solar System was being formed, this water went through cycles of turning into gas and then back to ice, eventually becoming part of planets like Earth, as well as asteroids and comets. The fact that we find a special kind of water, known as heavy water, both on Earth and in these space objects, tells us that much of our water came from these early space processes.
Maybe this is why some of it tastes so stale. Juss' sayin'...
And a measurable number of oxygen atoms you breath today were inhaled by thousands, if not millions, of people before you did. Pretty much every single atom in your body was recycled many times from many other organisms. The answer is 42, unless it's 56. There are more rational numbers than there are integers. Some infinities are bigger than others. If the prayer wheel ever gets to the last Name of God, the stars will go out. The world is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. Life is uncertain; eat dessert first.
ReplyDeleteI’ve read that if you take a deep breath, there’s something like 250,000 atoms of atmosphere that once occupied the lungs of Jesus or (and) Alexander the Great.
DeleteYeah, the water that we drink, dinosaurs peed in it...
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