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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI need & can't find paragraph about "We are all Stardust". I think Carl Sagan
authored it. I think it's more like for a eulogy.
frogmarch
(12,153 posts)The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff." Carl Sagan
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)live love laugh
(13,109 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(22,345 posts)And from the TV show Cosmos, spoken by him:
Samrob
(4,298 posts)Ilsa
(61,695 posts)mitch96
(13,904 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)and sub to me for religion. Who needs a deity who can be serene knowing we're eternally part of something magnificent beyond comprehension: "not a bit of you is gone, you're just less orderly."
Aristus
(66,361 posts)Delphinus
(11,830 posts)moonscape
(4,673 posts)at Cornell in the 70s when I lived in Manhattan. Was in Ithaca for the weekend and we were walking across campus when I grabbed his arm and said Is that Carl Sagan?! He said yeah, you want to meet him?
Was the thrill of my year
Aristus
(66,361 posts)I would love to have asked him a question about something. But if I had the opportunity, Im sure I would either forget to ask him, or ask a really stupid question.
Backseat Driver
(4,392 posts)I came upon a child of God
He was walking along the road
And I asked him, where are you going
And this he told me...
We are stardust
We are golden
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden!
Looking forward to perhaps returning to a "musical" stardust twinkle of light in the cosmos!
Celerity
(43,358 posts)Genki Hikari
(1,766 posts)I think of this: