Quote from: Lawrence Krauss
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 (http://theageofreason.org/post/352081397/every-atom-in-your-body-came-from-a-star-that?5f53ffc8))
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.
"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
Ah the excellent Carl Sagan.
Got to love the man.
Man I've got that song with the line "we are stardust" stuck in my head now :)
"Woodstock" "...we are star dust"
Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young "Woodstock" Live 1970
Trip out, man, dig it - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB1dIq3kac0
(http://www.photographersgallery.com/i/full/csny.gif)
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.
Quote from: RevJason83 on March 11, 2012, 01:31:07 PM
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
"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...
Quote from: cckeiser on March 11, 2012, 03:17:17 PM
Quote from: RevJason83 on March 11, 2012, 01:31:07 PM
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?
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.
Quote from: AspiringDude on July 11, 2012, 07:31:01 PM
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. 8)
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."
Quote from: AspiringDude on July 12, 2012, 08:00:53 PM
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.
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! ;)
Quote from: milnie on July 13, 2012, 05:33:07 AM
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! ;)
truth, this is indeed exactly how it is.
or the song by moby called we are all made of stars. it's in my head now.
yourgaelness
(cruisin the old posts)
True, but I am also made of In-And-Out-Burgers.
When I look up at the sky, and witness all the beauty
I gotta feel lucky for this very opportunity
I could've never been born, but instead I'm right here
And I think about death but I feel no fear.
I'm new, so it won't let me add a link.
Dr. Neil Degrasse Tyson's answer, which echoes Carl's... that the most amazing thing about the universe, is that our atoms, the heavy elements that make up the human body... oxygen, carbon, nitrogen... were formed in the hearts of stars, and as they exploded, they scattered their guts around, providing the raw material to make us.
It is beautiful to me that "The universe is in us," as he says, and rather than seeing our tiny world within it and feeling small, we can feel big, and connected to everything, because of this fact.
Abide.
Quote from: Smithy Dude on July 25, 2013, 05:33:42 PM
I'm new, so it won't let me add a link.
Dr. Neil Degrasse Tyson's answer, which echoes Carl's... that the most amazing thing about the universe, is that our atoms, the heavy elements that make up the human body... oxygen, carbon, nitrogen... were formed in the hearts of stars, and as they exploded, they scattered their guts around, providing the raw material to make us.
It is beautiful to me that "The universe is in us," as he says, and rather than seeing our tiny world within it and feeling small, we can feel big, and connected to everything, because of this fact.
Abide.
Abide for six more posts and you will be able to, dude.
Quote from: meekon5 on February 29, 2012, 08:48:57 AM
Quote from: Lawrence Krauss
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 (http://theageofreason.org/post/352081397/every-atom-in-your-body-came-from-a-star-that?5f53ffc8))
Wouldn't that mean that EVERYTHING is made of stars, not just humans? Kind of an egocentric quote if you ask me, dude ;)
Even dog shit is made of the same elements that made stars. I mean, no offense to meekon5, at least its an ethos, hehe.
That's actually the point. People always assume that atheists like me have no sense of wonder and belonging in the universe (or multiverse, if that's your thing). Me, you, dog shit, snot, special friends, the sea, a fart... everything...
I'm amazed that I'm part of an ongoing machine in which a tiny part of me was once a celestial furnace that helped create a world. That tiny part may have traveled light years or light centuries here. One day, our sun will collapse and maybe the Earth will crash into the sun and explode and be sent a long way. That part of me may become something like a comet or a new life or another star.
That, my fellow dude, is part of a beautiful celestial dance that amazes me more than anything.
(Yeah, I'm planning & producing some videos with this kind of stuff.)
Everything originated with the big bang and, in the beginning, God farted.
Quote from: Masked Dude on July 27, 2013, 12:26:11 PM
That's actually the point. People always assume that atheists like me have no sense of wonder and belonging in the universe (or multiverse, if that's your thing). Me, you, dog shit, snot, special friends, the sea, a fart... everything...
I'm amazed that I'm part of an ongoing machine in which a tiny part of me was once a celestial furnace that helped create a world. That tiny part may have traveled light years or light centuries here. One day, our sun will collapse and maybe the Earth will crash into the sun and explode and be sent a long way. That part of me may become something like a comet or a new life or another star.
That, my fellow dude, is part of a beautiful celestial dance that amazes me more than anything.
(Yeah, I'm planning & producing some videos with this kind of stuff.)
Exactamundo.
The un-dudeliest thing I encounter is the first-world, particularly American, view of rugged individualism, personal accomplishment attitude. It is good for us to be achievers, but not at the expense of realizing that we're all far more connected than our culture suggests. The church I grew up in suggested that we live in the world, but not of the world. Sage advice, when you realize that they're saying you gotta feed the monkey, but doing that doesn't have to drive every attitude you have.
Other mantras might be "think global, act local", any and every variation of the Golden Rule... do unto others as you would have them do unto you, or the wisdom traditions of the east, in which the Tao eschews self over whole.
At least, as far as I understand it. It is just my opinion after all.
Quote from: Smithy Dude on July 27, 2013, 04:05:30 PM
Quote from: Masked Dude on July 27, 2013, 12:26:11 PM
That's actually the point. People always assume that atheists like me have no sense of wonder and belonging in the universe (or multiverse, if that's your thing). Me, you, dog shit, snot, special friends, the sea, a fart... everything...
I'm amazed that I'm part of an ongoing machine in which a tiny part of me was once a celestial furnace that helped create a world. That tiny part may have traveled light years or light centuries here. One day, our sun will collapse and maybe the Earth will crash into the sun and explode and be sent a long way. That part of me may become something like a comet or a new life or another star.
That, my fellow dude, is part of a beautiful celestial dance that amazes me more than anything.
(Yeah, I'm planning & producing some videos with this kind of stuff.)
Exactamundo.
The un-dudeliest thing I encounter is the first-world, particularly American, view of rugged individualism, personal accomplishment attitude. It is good for us to be achievers, but not at the expense of realizing that we're all far more connected than our culture suggests. The church I grew up in suggested that we live in the world, but not of the world. Sage advice, when you realize that they're saying you gotta feed the monkey, but doing that doesn't have to drive every attitude you have.
Other mantras might be "think global, act local", any and every variation of the Golden Rule... do unto others as you would have them do unto you, or the wisdom traditions of the east, in which the Tao eschews self over whole.
At least, as far as I understand it. It is just my opinion after all.
Or how about simply....Please...Do No Harm.
http://donoharm.us (http://donoharm.us)
I like your style.
Doing good, though, as well as just avoiding harm, as part of a connected community of human beings, is what I aspire to.
I'm always interested in these cosmological perspectives. I recently read an article arguing that the universe is actually a living thing. We are all part of the Universe; collectively all living things make up the mind of the universe so that it can "know itself" as Sagan said. So that would mean that as parts of the universes' mind, our purpose in life is the learn because the more we learn, the more we know about us (us being the universe).
Also Why is Sagan still not a Great Dude of History?
Quote from: milnie on July 13, 2012, 05:33:07 AM
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! ;)
I've just finished the excelent (IMHDO) The Long Earth (http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Long-Earth-Terry-Pratchett/dp/0857520091) by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter talk about worlds on worlds. Though these are quantum parallel universes, but still a good read.
Quote from: Oompa Loompa Dude on July 27, 2013, 10:20:15 AM
Wouldn't that mean that EVERYTHING is made of stars, not just humans? Kind of an egocentric quote if you ask me, dude ;)
Even dog shit is made of the same elements that made stars. I mean, no offense to meekon5, at least its an ethos, hehe.
No offense taken and yes it would mean that.
Quote from: BrotherShamus on July 27, 2013, 04:59:11 PM
Also Why is Sagan still not a Great Dude of History?
I have no idea, but I just got here. I think he and Tyson both belong.
Allright, post count is up a little... Here's the short version...
http://youtu.be/9D05ej8u-gU (http://youtu.be/9D05ej8u-gU)
And the longer one, if you're into this whole astrophysicist thing...
http://youtu.be/wiOwqDmacJo (http://youtu.be/wiOwqDmacJo)