T-Shirt Shows Exactly Who You Really Are

Should come in yellow and have a big UPC code on it as well.

KenK

Ashes to Ashes , Funky to Funky

right now i know this all i need is the philosopher's stone and a heptagonal transmutation circle... and i'm set. =D

The UPC on the shirt is the same as this album (if that's just coincidence?): [www.allmusicimport.com]

We are not "stellar dust" We are Star Stuff.

Then I will tell you a great secret, Jesus Diaz. Perhaps the greatest of all time. The molecules of your body are the same molecules that make up this planet, and the nebula outside, that burn inside the stars themselves. We are star stuff. We are the universe made manifest, trying to figure itself out.

Does anyone have any idea what this raw material would cost if we assume it's equal to 165lbs?

They forgot Beer.

I like how they spelled Aluminium the UK way.

yeabirfday

@GitEmSteveDave_It'sLikeATankTop: An average high school student's allowance does it, according to Edward Elric :-)
(And he might be right, most of them are pretty cheap, the others can be salvaged)

Gergely Kosztolányi

@GitEmSteveDave_It'sLikeATankTop: I'm a huge fan of Carl Sagan. Grew up with his books and watching Cosmos. While the "Star Stuff" idea is romantically appealing, it's not quite accurate. Although, I suppose it largely depends on how literal you want to be about it...

Stars are roughly:
90% hydrogen
10% helium
traces of heavy elements

Earth's crust is roughly:
62% oxygen
22% silicon
6.5% aluminum
traces of iron, calcium, potassium, sodium, etc.

I think we humans, having ultimately come from the sea, are up to 90% water. About 99% of us comprises only six elements: oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus.

We aren't so complicated, after all. ;-)

@GitEmSteveDave_It'sLikeATankTop: You'll get more if you sell the organs the way they are.

@jakebathman: The first thing you did was Google the barcode? Shame on us both, then.

The back should say:
"= 100% Pimp"

DustyButtâ„¢

@MyNameIsTooAwesome: I got that on my playlist (I think it's "funk to funky" but not sure. I like "Major Tom" (referenced in the song) the best. Damn, I am old. I guess I'll be funky before I know it.

@MyNameIsTooAwesome: It's funk to funky, but you get extra points for quoting Him anyway.

but what about chemical X, it gives me 12 of my 17 super powers.

@craighyatt:

"While the "Star Stuff" idea is romantically appealing, it's not quite accurate."

However, the heavier elements do come from (larger) stars, just during their death-throws.

With this in mind, all things including the Earth, the sea, and us, have constituents born of stars, making the Sagan idea ultimately accurate.

MichaelS

Wait, wait, wait... If the human body is 55%-78% water, and water is two hydrogen molecules per every oxygen molecule, then how are we 65% oxygen and only 10% hydrogen? Sure, there's oxygen in other forms, but I'm thinking that we need much more hydrogen to create enough water for that 55%-78%...

Halp!

@witeowl: my head hurts.

@witeowl: Oxygen is 8 times as heavy as hydrogen.

ImSpartacus

@ImSpartacus: Oh, that actually makes sense. I was thinking percent by volume, not by mass.

(Oh, and thanks for spoiling a good joke, dammit. j/k)

@yeabirfday: or how its spelled as an element. but it could be the uk way too

@ImSpartacus: Beat me to it. :) When they say "percent" they mean percent by mass and oxygen atoms are much heavier than hydrogen atoms.

@Gergely Kosztolányi: +1 fullmetal achemist reference

@MichaelS: Point taken. But you kinda left of the rest of my statement, "Although, I suppose it largely depends on how literal you want to be about it."

@witeowl: I think you mean mole fraction, not volume. :)

jepzilla

@jepzilla: No, no... I actually mean volume. And if I'm wrong (again), so be it. I'll own that. That's why I love physics and hate chemistry. No, don't argue with me and try to tell me that physics and chemistry go hand in hand because they don't. Not really. No more than math and music go hand in hand. OK, well, maybe math and music... Oh, frak it, I lose. :)

@Jesustron: And weed.

Twanzio

@ProperBritish: You can make the body, but there's no equivalent exchange for a soul!!!

Griffehpoo

@ErwinGadgtastic: Water isn't an element, it's a molecule. You see any other molecules up there??

@GitEmSteveDave_It'sLikeATankTop: Don't do it, SteveDave. Fly too close to the sun, and you're gonna get burned.

Griffehpoo

@witeowl: about math and music... totally off topic... i just read something in a math book today. the musical staff is logarithmic. the scales are always spaced the same, but the frequency for each octave doubles. both pitch and volume are log functions b/c of the way our ears work. i just never thought about the fact that the musical staff is log paper. :)

@witeowl: i never got chemistry either in high school or later in college classes, even though i was good at math, physics, and computer stuff. i think it's one of those subjects that needs a really good teacher. now my wife is taking organic and when she explains it to me, it sounds really interesting. i'm going to assume you are still in school, so apologies if you aren't.... after i was in school a while, i realized something very important: sometimes, the kids who think outside the box ask questions the teacher can't answer like "why are there that many electrons in each orbit?". Instead of telling you straight up "i don't know" or "that's the way it is" or "see me after class and we can talk about it" the teacher launches into some long confusing explanation and makes you feel bad for asking. what i'm trying to say is... hang in there.

@craighyatt: Yes! Diamond and graphite is the same because they are both carbon!

mGARANDEUR1

@jepzilla: does "mole fraction" mean "the fraction of atoms of each element" b/c that's actually what i thought they meant. for example, water would be 66% hydrogen and 33% oxygen. for my own education, is that generally how chemists express the chemical makeup of something? do they generally imply by mass rather than number of atoms of each substance? sorry if those are ignorant questions, i couldn't pass chem... had to take geology. ;-)

@witeowl:

An oxygen atom is, relatively speaking, pretty big. A hydrogen atom is pretty small. To picture a water molecule in your mind think of two ping-pong balls (the hydrogen atoms) glued to a basketball (the oxygen atom.)

Ssscorpion

@yeabirfday: If by "the UK way" you mean "the correct way" then yes, so do I.

sneakypoo

@Sottren: Wow, guys. I think I have a new hobby.

Identity≈Spontaneity

I thought we were 10% luck, 20% skill, 15% concentrated power of will, 5% pleasure, 50% pain.

Identity≈Spontaneity

@witeowl: Pah, chemistry is just applied physics. Except for organic chemistry. That's more a combination of headaches and voodoo.

(j/k)

jepzilla

@craighyatt: I'm not a chemist, so I'm not sure how chemists express typically express chemical makeup.

That's sort of what mole fraction means. I was actually mistaken in my original use of 'mole fraction,' since that is reference to molecules. So you could say that the mole fraction of water in the human body is 75% (or whatever it is), but it doesn't make sense to say the mole fraction of oxygen in the body is ~70%, because that would be more in reference to disolved molecular oxygen (O2/O3) than oxygen as part of a water molecule.

I THINK the term for what we are describing is atomic fraction.

jepzilla

Human transmutation is forbidden!

duck0

@duck0: That's the first thing I thought of too! While we can get all the correct amounts of these elements and mix them together, you still don't get a human. We are more than just matter.

AxCrusnik

@mGARANDEUR1: what about diamonds and rust? ;-)

@GitEmSteveDave_It'sLikeATankTop: Well, if you could convert all of the carbon to diamond with 100 percent efficiency, you would have about 8760160000 United States dollars.

orangesrhyme

@Identity≈Spontaneity: That's just Fort Minor. We're Humans (Well, I am at least).

If you want a quick several million dollars, extract all of the gold from every human in the world from ages 16-65. That's 159.5 million USD!

orangesrhyme

@ProperBritish: Dunno why, but i think that might be a bad idea...

@duck0: BEWARE!

@this comic the other day. :)

@craighyatt: lol. Well, I am still in school, technically, but I'm a teacher. (No, I don't teach science.) I did well enough at chemistry, but don't use it so I never remember the particulars. If I took a chemistry class again, I could manage my way through it well enough, but I wouldn't enjoy it much. (I would enjoy it more than biology, though. Yech.)

I did love taking astronomy at our local college, though. At one point I got a test question wrong because it talked about stars that we see all the time (they never set) vs. stars that we see much of the time (they set), but it never took into consideration the stars that we never see (they never "rise" for us because of our location on the planet and their location relative to the planet's rotation). When I argued with him about this particular question, his response was, "Um, yes, well. You're right, but we're not going to talk about that because that's beyond where most people in this class are." Wow, what a way to insult and/or brush-off a whole class of adults, eh?

@DustyButtâ„¢: You mean "100% Nerd" right?

Bongoes

Is it weird that i love this shirt.

a temporal problem or a temporary problem just asking.

@witeowl: that comic reminds me of a joke one of my profs told to a class of engineering students. the snobby mathemetician looks down on engineers. he challenges a male engineer to race toward a beautiful woman by taking a step, then half that step, then half that step, etc. the mathematician knows this is an infinite series, and he's standing there snickering "ha, ha, ha! i fooled you. you'll never get close to the girl!" the engineer replies "close enough for all practical purposes". :D

@Identity≈Spontaneity: Thats only the composition of Fort Minor

Pengwin

the shirt might be funnier if instead of the chemical makeup, they put it in the format of a nutrition label with carbs, sugar, vitamins, serving size, and daily allowances. and then you could wear the shirt for every plane flight. in case you crash in the andes.