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So it's a three-element periodic table: Hydrogen, Helium, Metals. :)

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Yes.

And that's giving far too much weight to the Metals ;-)

(1% of total mass)

The universe really is just Hydrogen + Helium + rounding error...

I heard there might be interesting stuff happening with the metals though. They are self-conscious and stuff?

The jury’s out on that metaphysically speaking, but even if so that’s a rounding error of the rounding error. This handy chart breaking down the universe by subject area is a useful guide.

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2640:_The_Univers...

Wait, the metal talks? And it thinks with its metal?

the metal sings! they can sing by squirting air through their metal!

It's really metal through their metal

They're Made of Meat -> They're Made of Metal: way cooler

Yes, they are pretty self-conscious. E.g. gold constantly thinks she's looking too yellow.

Actually, I've heard it called just "Hydrogen and Dirty Hydrogen"

The universe is a zeppelin

Not a led zeppelin though

But a metal zeppelin

Hydrogen is a metal? You must be a very early universe astrophysicist

Reminds me of numbers for database programmers - 0, 1 and many.

Hydrogen, helium, light metal, and heavy metal

Can't we just consider the heavy metal noise?

AC/DC published a study in 1980 asserting that rock and roll ain't noise pollution.

Four actually. There are also heavy metals

More, once we include the combinatoric number of music genres produced by certain grouping of heavy metals on the third cluster from a medium-sized, boring star the metal designates as Sol.

That explains how we got to both dark matter and dark energy.

I would've aced my chemistry class!

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