ancient stars in their death troes spat out atoms like
iron which this universe had never known. The novel tidbits
of debris were sucked up by infant suns which, in turn, created yet more
atoms when their race was run. Now the iron of old nova coughings vivifies
the redness of our blood.

"If stars step constantly upward, why shoud the global interlace of
humans, microbes, plants, and animals not move upward steadily as well?
The horizons toward we must soar are within us, anxious to break free,
to emerge from our imaginings, then to beckon us forward into freah
realities.

"We have a mission to create, for we are evolution incarnate.
We are her self-awareness, her frontal lobes and fingertips.
We are second generation star stuff come alive. We are part of
something 3.5 billion years old, but pubertal in cosmic time.
We are neurons of this planets interspecies mind."

Howard Bloom, Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from
the Big Bang to the 21st Century

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mmmm, I love it too, totally makes me want to go back to studying astronomy and the universe. Really intereresting stuff. It makes me feel so magical when I think about how all the iron in my body was first made inside a star!

:The laws of physics appear 'fine tuned' for our existence.
Even slight deviations in the laws would result in a
universe devoid of stars and life. If' for instance,
the force of gravity were just a few percent weaker it
couldnot squeeze and heat the matter inside stars to
the millions of degresss that are necessary to trigger
sunlight generating nuclear reations. If gravity were only
percent stonger, however, it would heat up the stars,
causeing them to consume their fuel faster. They would
not exist for billions of years needed for evolution to
produce intelligence. This kind of fine tuning is wide
spread."-Marcus Chown, "Radical Science: Did Angels
create the Universe?,"