Yeartye, Manchester, United Kingdom, 4 hours ago
Well, for a CIA document it’s rather badly written (’Earthlings’ is straight out of cheesy science fiction films circa 1955). But if we take it at face value, the human body is 90% water, with carbon, calcium and iron making up most of the rest. Limestone is calcium carbonate, so all the ingredients are there to make limestone, you just have to drive off most of the water and catalyse the remaining components to form a rock-like substance. But what happened to the iron?
Not to mention the oxygen, phosphorus and fluorine which combine with calcium and minor elements to make up bones.
“But if we take it at face value, the human body is 90% water, with carbon, calcium and iron making up most of the rest. Limestone is calcium carbonate, so all the ingredients are there to make limestone, you just have to drive off most of the water and catalyse the remaining components to form a rock-like substance. But what happened to the iron?”
Excellent reality about the composition of the human body. If there were traces of red in this “stone” then the Iron was there... Iron ore comes in the form of “Iron Oxide” and very rarely as “native” pure Iron. So it would just appear as a red color/rust in the whole of things.