For me it is the fact that our blood contains iron. I earlier used to believe the word stood for some ‘organic element’ since I couldn’t accept we had metal flowing through our supposed carbon-based bodies, till I realized that is where the taste and smell of blood comes from.

  • @CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world
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    111 year ago

    The Sun is not a big enough star to ever go nova. Neither are any of our close neighbors. We’re pretty safe from that kind of disaster.

    Earth is just gonna slowly cook to a cinder and probably get swallowed when the Sun starts expanding in a couple billion years.

    • @evatronic@lemm.ee
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      71 year ago

      Fine! Geez.

      Space aliens could teleport in next to sun, fling a bunch of Star Trek red matter at it like Spock did to the Romulan star, destabilize the star, and cause a, I think it was a black hole? where the star was. And we wouldn’t know for 8-ish minutes.