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Originally Posted by avandonk
You are children of the stars. Any atom in your body that is not hydrogen or helium was manufactured in a star eons ago. Normal stars can only produce by nucleosynthesis up to Iron. Any element higher than this can only be produced in a super nova. Every atom in the gold you see was produced by a super nova.
Bert
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This is "what was your face before your parents were born?", so for me part of it is the koan aspect of it and part the unutterable serenity of gazing at things of extraordinary beauty at fathomless distance under a dark sky accompanied by crickets. Same things really.