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Are Humans Really Stardust

BSM1

What? Me worry?
'CHNOPS: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur.'

Means we could also just be made of manure; like walking mud monsters. :p

In my opinion. :innocent:

Many of us talk like were full of it already!
 

Brickjectivity

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Are humans star dust. Research suggests elements more condusive to life is more prevalent toward the center of the universe. How does life evolve from star dust, really the question is, why?
Its a good question. Physically its related to wondering what compels things to change over time. Why is there time?
 

sayak83

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Are humans star dust. Research suggests elements more condusive to life is more prevalent toward the center of the universe. How does life evolve from star dust, really the question is, why?
Humans Really Are Made of Stardust, and a New Study Proves It
Center of the Galaxy, not universe.
All elements apart from hydrogen is created inside stars. Thus it follows that all material systems including biological bodies of organisms will be necessarily made of stardust. What is the problem here.
 

Kemosloby

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The hippies were inspired by science. But in the end, earth dust is the same as star dust so neither is wrong.

I think you mean chemistry, the hippies were inspired by chemistry, acid, pot, etc. Science would say Earth is not a star, which by their standards would render man being created from the dust of the Earth a false statement.
 

idav

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'CHNOPS: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur.'

Means we could also just be made of manure; like walking mud monsters. :p

In my opinion. :innocent:
Manure has a lot of the nutrients but we are a lot more than things that decompose, thus the question.
 

idav

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I think you mean chemistry, the hippies were inspired by chemistry, acid, pot, etc. Science would say Earth is not a star, which by their standards would render man being created from the dust of the Earth a false statement.
The stars create the planets with its dust, whatever that entails.
 

David T

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As part of hippie music evolution man changed from earth dust to star dust. But I'm thinking we are Earth dust and Star light.

Damn you beat me!!! I copied the link and wham it was already here. Awesome reference. The real question is, how did we forget ,not, how does it happen.
 

David T

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Are humans star dust. Research suggests elements more condusive to life is more prevalent toward the center of the universe. How does life evolve from star dust, really the question is, why?
Humans Really Are Made of Stardust, and a New Study Proves It
The really interesting question to me is how did we forget, not how did it happen, that's a symptom of forgetting. So culture seems to conspire towards forgetting. I am a harsh evolutionist so it all works together across the entire spectrum of time but dang we are a very forgetful bunch. In Preliterate society, WE, carried remembering with US. when WE became literate and WE no longer had to remember WE could just read it, and THEY became a separate from US.

Forgetting is imbedded in what I wrote, intentionally. If forgetting is fundamental to modern culture then my references of WE are flipped into the cultural fantasy THEY, THEM. We then are no longer integral to history but simply living in the moment, as highly intelligent but simplistic believers, believing we are the apex of history. Structurally very linear, very hierarchical and backwards. .
 
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It Aint Necessarily So

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Are humans star dust. Research suggests elements more condusive to life is more prevalent toward the center of the universe. How does life evolve from star dust, really the question is, why?
Humans Really Are Made of Stardust, and a New Study Proves It

Regarding why life evolves from stardust, the best answer today is that it inevitably will wherever possible:

Life Is Inevitable Consequence Of Physics, According To New Research

The raw materials come, as Sayak explained, from the stellar nucleosynthesis of primordial hydrogen formed early in the history of the universe into all heavier elements (a bit of helium and beryllium was also formed before stars).

Incidentally, the stars in question are not our sun. Its ashes are still contained within it. The carbon, nitrogen, oxygen etc. on our planet came from stars long since dead, whose explosions sent matter hurtling toward the nebula that would eventually become our solar system, one shock wave from which caused it to collapse into a star, planets, asteroids, and comets.

So earth's dust is stardust, and the life that arose on it as well.
 

Subduction Zone

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Lets grant that for a sec and say why ask things compelled to so things, just magnets and gravity? Also why does the sun feel the need to get reinvolved after part of its cooled down some distance away?

I suppose I could have been a bit more thorough.

The laws of thermodynamics and chemistry.


Seriously that may be all that it takes. I heard a lecture once from a physicist that explained why the laws of thermodynamics all but guarantees life. Now you may be wondering why intelligent life evolved, and that may be harder to explain. In life's almost 4 billion years of existence on this planet intelligent life has existed for only the smallest little slice of time here. We don't even know if intelligence leads to a long time survival of a species yet.
 
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