[gpvos]

Well, yeah. I thought it was carbon, and I thought it was way ahead of the others. But instead there are actually a bunch of elements vying pretty closely for third position: oxygen, carbon, neon, nitrogen, magnesium, silicium, iron, sulphur. (Although one should keep in mind that the graph is logarithmic.)

Note that the graph actually shows the estimated abundance of elements in the solar system (found that on Wikipedia), not the universe or the Milky Way. The article misrepresents that!

[Terr_]

I thought he was making a Terry Pratchett reference.

> The world is made up of four elements: Earth, Air, Fire and Water. This is a fact well known even to Corporal Nobbs. It's also wrong. There's a fifth element, and generally it's called Surprise.