Why do people perpetuate shit like this? IIRC it was Sagan who said something like 'the chemical elements contained in your body are worth 3 dollars'. I don't even know if that's true or if he said that, but I don't go around spitting muh facts like that. Also, I don't use generic words like chemicals. I'm pretty sure the compounds contained on the human body are worth A LOT more than 5 dollars.
Fucking normies.
I would pay a good amount for some ATP, DNA, ribosomes, enzymes, and other things. I'd say that if you did that, you could sell all of the materials for a few hundred thousand dollars
>>7795004
Organs easily get in the tens and hundreds of thousands.
>>7794981
If Sagan said "the chemical elements etc etc," then he'd be exactly correct, if not an over-estimate.
He said chemical elements, i.e. things that you find on the periodic table. If you took a human body and split all the compounds into the smallest naturally occurring pieces, you'd have a collection stuff worth very little to anybody.
>>7795055
I know that. What I'm criticising is that some Tumblr faggots get the general idea behind that and then turn it into a lie (yer chemicals are worth nuffin you guyz!1!) and spread it everywhere.
>>7795055
This is from a chemistry perspective, not a medical perspective you nerd.
