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Related: About this forumThom Hartmann: Did you know we're all wearing dead stars?
The next time you go to a jewlery store to buy a gold ring or a gold watch - just think - that little piece of bling could actually be the result of one very large cosmic boom!
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Thom Hartmann: Did you know we're all wearing dead stars? (Original Post)
thomhartmann
Jul 2013
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longship
(40,416 posts)1. More than that. Everything is dead stars.
Everything beyond Hydrogen and Helium on the periodic table, that is. All created in stars. All of it!
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)2. And NOW....
for my starring role!
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)6. And THAT is an amazing concept.
We are star dust.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)3. Ok, so it's a slightly differen manner of dead star but
literally every atom in your body, aside from some hydrogen, are from dead stars that blew up a different way...
postulater
(5,075 posts)4. Yup, we knew it years ago.
"We are Stardust" Joni Mitchell.
[link:http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x2530781|
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)5. We are all made of stars nt
Kennah
(14,315 posts)7. From Big Bang, to gold ring, to marriage, to Little Bang