How much are you worth? Obviously priceless is the correct answer but in 2013 the Royal Society of Chemistry worked out how much it would cost to build a human from scratch using all the constituent elements and it came out to £96,546.79 for materials alone.
Apparently all the chemicals needed to make a human body could be bought in a hardware store but before you turn up in B&Q with a shopping list and a plan to build your own person, what would you actually need?
Sugar and spice and everything nice for a girl and frogs and snails and puppy dog tails for a boy you might think if that rhyme is to be believed but the RSC calculations include fifty-nine elements with Carbon, Oxygen, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Calcium and Phosphorus accounting for 99.1% of what makes us so that would be the best aisles to visit first but what goes into the other 0.9%?
In the shopping trolley would need to go a few atoms of Molybdenum, Vanadium, Manganese, Cesium, Zirconium, Arsenic, Uranium Tin and Copper and twenty atoms of cobalt and thirty of Chromium which means you now have the material for your self made human.
After taking it home and spreading out the materials on your kitchen side, the problem you got now is how to actually make the human from all those bits because you won't just be chucking it all it a bowl and giving it a good mix and unfortunately you won't find the answer on the Internet and even if you have the telephone number of the cleverest Scientists on the Planet, they won't be much help because nobody yet knows how to make a single living cell from scratch, let alone the 50 trillion human cells needed for an average sized human.
Hopefully you have kept the receipt.
Thursday, 3 April 2025
You Could Be Mine (For £96,546)
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