Stars
Fortunately, there are faster ways to count.
Stars are being made faster than they can be counted, too.
This ought to have significance somehow.
There are stars enough that each of us can have our very own. Don't put it in your pocket.
You can make your own star. Here is the recipe: gather hydrogen.
If there were no Big Bang, and the "steady state" Universe a true description, (which, no doubt, it could still be.) all that would be needed is a slow accumulation of hydrogen. -- Everything else could be produced from that. Helium, neon, carbon, oxygen, iron, gold, and uranium. -- So where did Life come from?
If gold and aluminum came somehow from hydrogen, Life came somehow from non-life. (Which does NOT mean there wasn't a Creator -- don't start!) The dust of the Earth perhaps. Or that quaint notion about Seawater. I'm currently in favor of space-borne bacteria, which of course begs the question. Where did they come from? But it satisfies the explanation of how Life began on Earth, and it also means Life will be abundant throughout the Universe.
But for now let's just stick to the most currently important questions.
1. Where is my next meal coming from?
2. How do we make fusion engines?
3. How shall we travel to those stars?
Well, now Bob interesting indeed.
If I brewed a star
using the ingredients
you named and it stated
to glow and glow
where would I go with
my pocket star..
I know you said don't put
it there... in my pocket
but it's my star, I brewed it
I want to keep near
and hear it sing
see it glow.
As for the problem
of how we get to the
stars..... we fly
my Dragonfly and Me.