For me it is the fact that our blood contains iron. I earlier used to believe the word stood for some ‘organic element’ since I couldn’t accept we had metal flowing through our supposed carbon-based bodies, till I realized that is where the taste and smell of blood comes from.

  • AOCapitulator [they/them]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    edit-2
    10 months ago

    We humans are roughly as big compared to atoms and subatomic particles as we are small compared to the largest structures of the observable universe