This really is true!!
I read it in Harpers Magazine . . .
From the 100% Fact challenge. See all 469 entries (closed)
( , Tue 28 Oct 2003, 20:32, archived)
I read it in Harpers Magazine . . .
From the 100% Fact challenge. See all 469 entries (closed)
( , Tue 28 Oct 2003, 20:32, archived)
Bollocks.
You might be breathing molecules from his body, but probably not from his breath. But then again, the same is true of anyone else who died in that era... so it's not that impressive, is it?
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Tue 28 Oct 2003, 20:33,
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ah,
sorry, didn't see the 100% FACT label. Must be true then!! My mistake.
:P :D
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Tue 28 Oct 2003, 20:36,
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:P :D
Well the argument goes
That the number of molecules in the average human breath is greater than the number of breaths it takes to make up the atmosphere
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Tue 28 Oct 2003, 20:52,
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However quantum mechanics
sort of implies the question has no meaning,
since you can't label oxygen and nitrogen molecules for 2000 years under ambient conditions.
[edit] 100% UNFACT
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Tue 28 Oct 2003, 20:53,
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since you can't label oxygen and nitrogen molecules for 2000 years under ambient conditions.
[edit] 100% UNFACT
That's a marvelous fact
i don't understand how but that doesn't stop it being marvelous!
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Tue 28 Oct 2003, 20:34,
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The other 1 time...
...you get a molecule from his final fart.
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Tue 28 Oct 2003, 20:34,
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Ooh...
I was reading something very similar today.... apparently we all contain millions of atoms which once made up Shakespeare
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