Cool quote

mikestang · 11-03-09, 00:31

Saw this guy on the History channel and liked what he had to say enough to take the time to type it out.

Quote:

Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high-mass stars that exploded their chemically enriched guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we're all connected - to each other, biologically; to the Earth, chemically; and to the rest of the universe, atomically. That's kinda cool. That makes me smile, and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It's not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We're in the universe, and the universe is in us.

- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Astrophysicist, American Museum of Natural History

MLBjammer · 11-03-09, 05:52

I have seen Tyson on the History Channel and other places many times. He is a wise fellow. We are the stuff of stars, eh?

Sidestreet · 11-03-09, 07:54

Good stuff.

EmmisonJ · 11-03-09, 09:08

you can say the same thing about your poop. your poop was once the stuff made of stars.

warriorsoul · 11-03-09, 09:35

We are poop.

extrememetal43 · 11-03-09, 09:38

Gnarcat420 · 11-03-09, 11:35

We are stardust, we are golden
we are a billion year old carbon,
and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden
crosby stills nash and young

( ps
joni mitchell originally wrote it)

copelandiaKidd · 11-03-09, 12:20

GREAT QUOTE, put that in your signature!!!!!

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Sidestreet Day Tipper Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 2,058	Good stuff. __________________ "Better to have drugs and no money, than money and no drugs!"

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copelandiaKidd Dancing through Sunday!!! Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 1,286	GREAT QUOTE, put that in your signature!!!!! __________________ Viva La Topia!!! Rip Hip3 Being dyslexic has drawbacks. I once went to a toga party dressed as a goat.

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MLBjammer Addicted to Invitro Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 3,650	I have seen Tyson on the History Channel and other places many times. He is a wise fellow. We are the stuff of stars, eh?

11-03-09, 09:08	#4 (permalink)
EmmisonJ Pass the Vick's Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 865	you can say the same thing about your poop. your poop was once the stuff made of stars.

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Gnarcat420 shamanista Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 85	We are stardust, we are golden we are a billion year old carbon, and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden crosby stills nash and young ( ps joni mitchell originally wrote it)

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