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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWe are made of star-stuff.
Our Sun is a second- or third-generation star. All of the rocky and metallic material we stand on, the iron in our blood, the calcium in our teeth, the carbon in our genes were produced billions of years ago in the interior of a red giant star. We are made of star-stuff.
--Carl Sagan
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We are made of star-stuff. (Original Post)
Prisoner_Number_Six
Dec 2013
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Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)1. We are the universe
Prisoner_Number_Six
(15,676 posts)3. Thank God you didn't say "We are the world".
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,699 posts)2. My dear Prisoner_Number_Six!
Wow.
Carl Sagan understood our origins...
Thank you!
Prisoner_Number_Six
(15,676 posts)4. The cool part is
one day we'll go back and become star-stuff again.
orleans
(34,073 posts)12. so did joni mitchell
(but i like csn&y version better)
Yavin4
(35,445 posts)5. We are the universe trying to understand itself. n/t
sarge43
(28,945 posts)6. This is what hydrogen atoms do, given 15 billion years of evolution. nt
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)7. I went to the Sun once. Didn't like it. Dirty country....opps...wrong thread.
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)8. Stellar left-overs
Kept cool in the dark of space, then reheated...
earthbot1
(77 posts)9. yes
wonder what the sun thinks of us?
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)10. We are
Stardust, we are golden...
Errr
Never mind
valerief
(53,235 posts)11. I'm no star. I'm a SUPERSTAR!
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)13. Carl Sagan will always get a rec from me.
The point he made (we're all star stuff) is a truly mind-blowing concept bigger than any religion.