Zen Pencils by Gavin Aung Than for April 22, 2024
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Transcript:
The most astounding fact… …is the knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on Earth, the atoms that make up the human body. Are traceable to the crucibles that cooked light elements into heavy elements in their core, under extreme temperatures and pressure. These stars, when unstable in their later years, collapse and exploded, scattering their enriched guts across the galaxy. Guts made of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and all the fundamental ingredients of life itself. These ingredients become part of gas clouds that condense and collapse. Forming the next generation of solar systems - stars with orbiting planets. And these planets now have the ingredients for life. So when I look up at the night sky… …I know that yes, we are part of this universe. We are in this universe. But perhaps most important than both of those facts… …is that the universe is in us. - Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Old Wolf 7 months ago
“Be humble, for you are made of dust. Be noble, for you are made of stars.” – Serbian proverb
sergioandrade Premium Member 7 months ago
“We are stardust, We are golden, We are million year old carbon” C,S,B, & Y Woodstock
FreyjaRN Premium Member 7 months ago
Dr. Tyson is right.
Willywise52 Premium Member 7 months ago
Everything and everyone wasn’t created six thousand years ago?Imagine that.
DawnQuinn1 7 months ago
Neil is a very wise and intelligent man. His podcasts are worth listening to.
Creedon Francis Premium Member 7 months ago
Out of Africa on a journey to the stars if we can get our head out of our a$$
Teto85 Premium Member 7 months ago
Yup. We are star stuff.
Bruce1253 7 months ago
I am firmly convinced that societies grow and mature. Sometimes you have to try on different ways of being before you find the one that is “Just Right.” Years ago I was talking to my daughter and told her, “I like the way you have turned out, I was worried for a while.” She told me, “I had to try out different styles.” “Oh, so that explains your Goth period?” She said, “Oh daddy, lots of people in school were dressing Goth, so I had to try it, but yuck. It was not me.”
I think our society is going through it’s equivalent of a “Goth Period,” Trump, Putin, Netanyahu, these are people who are not us. I am waiting for us to recognize that and move on. I hope it doesn’t take too long.