we are all stardust
no but really
I mean except for the hydrogen in you. that came from the dawn of time itself
this chart changed my fucking life
@starwall And the grey ones were God ?
@adingbatponder the grey ones are unstable and so were not found in the starting elements of nature. missing. so yeah, god.
@starwall @[email protected] to make it clear: It exists now, so the chart could add "man-made". We should not call something "god" just because it did not exist in the past. The term is reserved for things made up by humans that do not, did not, and never will exist.
@DeepKling @starwall @adingbatponder Yeah. I'm sure the gray ones would form in neutron star mergers, but they're too unstable for them to still be around on Earth after all that time -- and they don't show up in decay chains of other things, etc. So, all of our *samples* of them were man-made, but that doesn't mean they don't occur in nature. They just don't occur on Earth naturally.
@varx @starwall @adingbatponder Yes, shure. I guess there are many isotopes out there that do not exist on earth (most probably no stable ones, but who knows) due to our limited fusion techniques.