The Last Note Elvis Presley Sang
Thursdays are hereby designated Amasnic Fact Off Day on HDotW.
And today’s Amasnic Fact Off is:
As you read this sentence, you will breathe at least one atom from the last note Elvis Presley sang.
On August 16, 1977, at 4:30 am, after an early game of racquetball, the king sat at the piano located in the racquetball building and played a couple of gospel songs. Then he sang Willie Nelson’s Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain. A few hours later he fell off his throne, but amasnically, every breath anybody takes contains a few atoms from that last note.
Doing the Math
One breath of air contains about 1022 atoms. The entire atmosphere of planet Earth contains about 1044 atoms. Consensus among meteorologists with math degrees is that a liter of breath atoms will be well mixed back into the atmosphere in ten years.
This factoid, taught to thousands of high school physics students each year, is more commonly known as the Caesar’s Last Breath or Celebrity Death Breath problem. Some professors prove a slightly more difficult theory called You Just Breathed a Celebrity Fart.
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