Quote:Nothing uncool about it.

 

Ever look into the sky at night and sit and think to yourself, "The star that I'm looking at may no longer even exist?"

 

It's stuff like that which so many people these days can't even get their brains around. They are incapable of thinking on that scale, and in that manner.

 

“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 and for life - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way for them to get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. [Omitted because of rules]. The stars died so that you could be here today.”


EDIT: I forgot to include that this is a Lawrence Krauss quote.


Think about that, what makes you possible was created by stars much like the one that warms us today and much like the ones that we "see" in the night sky.


There is such beauty in this universe. It's a shame that so many people fail to think beyond Earth or even beyond their own lives

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