• merde alors@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    why the need to grandiosity?

    just dust

    nothing cosmic about it. And not dust at all, just a human typing on a screen. There’s a purity to dust that we shouldn’t reclaim. Is the moon full tonight?

    • Chainweasel@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Everything heavier than lithium was created either in the heart of a star over it’s lifetime, or during its death in a supernova. We really are cosmic dust, or as Carl Segan called it, “Star Stuff”.