[longshadow]

I have always heard this; from Sagen probably. Is it true? How do they know this?

The only mechanism that science can find for production of significant quantities of matter heavier than helium is through processes associated with the nuclear reaction inside of stars.

Anything that is made out of atoms other than hydrogen or helium virtually had to come from material that was ejected from some long-since dead star. Hence almost everything you come in contact every day is made from "star-dust."

[JethroHathAWay]

Okay thanks. Where does the hydrogen and helium come from? I do know their gases (I have some sense!)

[PatrickHenry]

From the article:
Turnbull narrowed the 5,000 or so stars within 100 light years of Earth to a shortlist of 30 and presented the list to scientists ...

That's a lot of stars. And we're located in one of the spiral arms, thinly populated with stars. There would seem to be enough stars "nearby" that we could stay busy for generations just sending out probes. As soon as we can propel them at an appreciable percentage of lightspeed. A mere 10% of lightspeed will be okay. We'd start getting an informational payback rather quickly.

[Friend of thunder]

Hence almost everything you come in contact every day is made from "star-dust."

Well, I came upon a child of God

He was walking along the road

And I asked him, 'Tell where are you going?'

This he told me

Said, 'I'm going down to Yasgur's Farm,

Gonna join in a rock and roll band.

Got to get back to the land and set my soul free.'

We are stardust, we are golden,

We are billion year old carbon,

And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.

'Well, then can I walk beside you?

I have come to lose the smog,

And I feel like I'm a cog in something turning.

And maybe it's the time of year,

Yes and maybe it's the time of man.

And I don't know who I am,

But life is for learning.'

We are stardust, we are golden,

We are billion year old carbon.

And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.

By the time we got to Woodstock,

We were half a million strong

And everywhere was a song and a celebration. Riding shotgun in the sky,

Turning into butterflies

Above our nation.

We are stardust, we are golden,

We are caught in the devil's bargain,

And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Woodstock

[Written by Joni Mitchell, performed by

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young]

Sorry I could not resist.

[Mustang]

Plese pardon this late response to your above cogent posts. It's good to know some of us are humbled in being aware of our "star-dust" origins.

The hubris of the "I know the truth" crowd is confounding.

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