We are all made of Stars!

[meekon5]

Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded.
And the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand.
It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics.
You are all stardust.
You couldn't be here if stars hadn't exploded.
Because the elements, the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution weren't created at the beginning of time.
They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars.
And the only way they could get into your body is if the stars were kind enough to explode.
So forget Jesus.
The stars died so you could be here today.

Sorry christian Dudes, I just liked this.

(Again through Stumble Upon, from Age of Reason)

[Caesar dude]

I think most of it was said by Dr. Brian Cox...the glamour boy of UK Physics and my only "man crush" lol (but he might have nicked from someone else.

You're right it's a beautiful quote.

[Reverend Curb]

"And we who embody the local eyes and ears and thoughts and feelings of the cosmos we've begun, at last, to wonder about our origins. Star stuff, contemplating the stars organized collections of 10 billion-billion-billion atoms contemplating the evolution of matter tracing that long path by which it arrived at consciousness here on the planet Earth and perhaps, throughout the cosmos." - Carl Sagan

[meekon5]

Ah the excellent Carl Sagan.

Got to love the man.

[milnie]

Man I've got that song with the line "we are stardust" stuck in my head now

[DigitalBuddha]

"Woodstock" "...we are star dust"

Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young "Woodstock" Live 1970

Trip out, man, dig it - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB1dIq3kac0

[RevJason83]

Search for the song called "We are all connected" by Symphony of Science on youtube (I'd put the link, but I haven't reached my 10 posts yet) it is all about that and how it connects all of us. Plus the way they did the song is totally groovy.

[cckeiser]

Search for the song called "We are all connected" by Symphony of Science on youtube (I'd put the link, but I haven't reached my 10 posts yet) it is all about that and how it connects all of us. Plus the way they did the song is totally groovy.

Is this the one dude?
http://youtu.be/2Ky2JQq8lag

[Mitch]

"We are a way for the universe to know itself. Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return. And we can, because the cosmos is also within us. We're made of star stuff,"- Carl Sagan
Yep. Carbon, nitrogen and oxygen atoms in our bodies, as well as atoms of all other heavy elements, were created in previous generations of stars over 4.5 billion years ago. Science is so awesome. It's a shame that half of America doesn't accept it...

[RevJason83]

Search for the song called "We are all connected" by Symphony of Science on youtube (I'd put the link, but I haven't reached my 10 posts yet) it is all about that and how it connects all of us. Plus the way they did the song is totally groovy.

Is this the one dude?

Indeed dude, indeed! Awesome ain't it?

[AspiringDude]

We need more poetry in science. Maybe then people would be more accepting of it. Sadly some scientists still come off as very uptight.

And Sagan was one of the greatest scientific poets I have ever heard about. The "pale blue dot" speech makes me cry almost every time I hear it.

[cckeiser]

We need more poetry in science. Maybe then people would be more accepting of it. Sadly some scientists still come off as very uptight.

And Sagan was one of the greatest scientific poets I have ever heard about. The "pale blue dot" speech makes me cry almost every time I hear it.

Welcome to our party dude! Smoke em if you got em.

[AspiringDude]

Got another awesome thought here - at least I think it is...

Let's say that all the doomsayers are wrong and humanity makes it to other star systems...and in a few billion years our sun goes boom...

And then, one day in a distant, distant future, some people, maybe not unlike us, are wondering where they come from...when suddenly, a spaceship lands and one of our great great great etc etc. descendants steps out and says, " You are the children of our sun."

[Rev. RJ Dudemiester]

Got another awesome thought here - at least I think it is...

Let's say that all the doomsayers are wrong and humanity makes it to other star systems...and in a few billion years our sun goes boom...

And then, one day in a distant, distant future, some people, maybe not unlike us, are wondering where they come from...when suddenly, a spaceship lands and one of our great great great etc etc. descendants steps out and says, " You are the children of our sun."

Far Out Dude!


Now Trip On This-

This has ALL happened  before and WILL happen again.

[milnie]

i subscribe to the theory of worlds within worlds: our universe is but a quark in an atom of another universe. so nice to think that you contain trillions of tiny universes within you. on the other hand, the atom our universe exists briefly in could just be in a pile of shit!