a bloody big number

I found out how many atoms there are in a human body: loads. Far more than my puny earthling brain had anticipated:

7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

That's seven billion billion billion.

I got this from here, where there are also a link to a very, very detailed analysis of how much of each of the periodic table's elements we contain.

This sort of thing makes me feel very ignorant, and makes me wish I hadn't spent so much time pissing about, when I could have been learning stuff and doing something with it.

You know that Victoria Wood song called (I think) Reincarnation? That's how I feel today: greedy for time, greedy for energy, greedy for the chance to do all sorts of different, fulfilling things.