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Prisoner_Number_Six

(15,676 posts) Thu Dec 19, 2013, 06:37 PM Dec 2013

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We 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 OP

We are the universe Angry Dragon Dec 2013 #1

Thank God you didn't say "We are the world". Prisoner_Number_Six Dec 2013 #3

My dear Prisoner_Number_Six! CaliforniaPeggy Dec 2013 #2

The cool part is Prisoner_Number_Six Dec 2013 #4

so did joni mitchell orleans Dec 2013 #12

We are the universe trying to understand itself. n/t Yavin4 Dec 2013 #5

This is what hydrogen atoms do, given 15 billion years of evolution. nt sarge43 Dec 2013 #6

I went to the Sun once. Didn't like it. Dirty country....opps...wrong thread. BlueJazz Dec 2013 #7

Stellar left-overs pokerfan Dec 2013 #8

yes earthbot1 Dec 2013 #9

We are pipi_k Dec 2013 #10

I'm no star. I'm a SUPERSTAR! valerief Dec 2013 #11

Carl Sagan will always get a rec from me. Ron Obvious Dec 2013 #13

Angry Dragon

(36,693 posts)

1. We are the universe

Reply to Prisoner_Number_Six (Original post)

Thu Dec 19, 2013, 06:40 PM

Dec 2013

Prisoner_Number_Six

(15,676 posts)

3. Thank God you didn't say "We are the world".

Reply to Angry Dragon (Reply #1)

Thu Dec 19, 2013, 06:55 PM

Dec 2013

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,632 posts)

2. My dear Prisoner_Number_Six!

Reply to Prisoner_Number_Six (Original post)

Thu Dec 19, 2013, 06:46 PM

Dec 2013

Wow.

Carl Sagan understood our origins...

Thank you!

Prisoner_Number_Six

(15,676 posts)

4. The cool part is

Reply to CaliforniaPeggy (Reply #2)

Thu Dec 19, 2013, 06:56 PM

Dec 2013

one day we'll go back and become star-stuff again.

orleans

(34,057 posts)

12. so did joni mitchell

Reply to CaliforniaPeggy (Reply #2)

Fri Dec 20, 2013, 03:24 AM

Dec 2013

(but i like csn&y version better)

Yavin4

(35,441 posts)

5. We are the universe trying to understand itself. n/t

Reply to Prisoner_Number_Six (Original post)

Thu Dec 19, 2013, 07:03 PM

Dec 2013

sarge43

(28,941 posts)

6. This is what hydrogen atoms do, given 15 billion years of evolution. nt

Reply to Prisoner_Number_Six (Original post)

Thu Dec 19, 2013, 08:07 PM

Dec 2013

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)

7. I went to the Sun once. Didn't like it. Dirty country....opps...wrong thread.

Reply to Prisoner_Number_Six (Original post)

Thu Dec 19, 2013, 08:30 PM

Dec 2013

pokerfan

(27,677 posts)

8. Stellar left-overs

Reply to Prisoner_Number_Six (Original post)

Thu Dec 19, 2013, 08:47 PM

Dec 2013

Kept cool in the dark of space, then reheated...

earthbot1

(77 posts)

9. yes

Reply to Prisoner_Number_Six (Original post)

Thu Dec 19, 2013, 08:56 PM

Dec 2013

wonder what the sun thinks of us?

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)

10. We are

Reply to Prisoner_Number_Six (Original post)

Thu Dec 19, 2013, 10:55 PM

Dec 2013

Stardust, we are golden...

Errr

Never mind

valerief

(53,235 posts)

11. I'm no star. I'm a SUPERSTAR!

Reply to Prisoner_Number_Six (Original post)

Thu Dec 19, 2013, 11:11 PM

Dec 2013

Ron Obvious

(6,261 posts)

13. Carl Sagan will always get a rec from me.

Reply to Prisoner_Number_Six (Original post)

Fri Dec 20, 2013, 06:18 AM

Dec 2013

The point he made (we're all star stuff) is a truly mind-blowing concept bigger than any religion.

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