Good Lord the universe is old. To think of how rare all that must be and how it had to have time to somehow get here to our planet.
I'd be interested to know if we're in an element rich vein of the wider universe or if all the good stuff is more or less evenly distributed?
>Some whole galaxies have average metallicities only 1/10 of the Sun's. Some new stars in our galaxy have more metals in them than the original solar nebula that birthed the Sun and the planets did. So the amount of "metals" like oxygen and carbon can vary by a few orders of magnitude from star to star, depending upon it's age and history.
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