Friday, January 28, 2005

star-light, star-bright

Today i was sitting in organic class listening to my teacher lecture. then suddenly he went off on this tanget about the titan moon and liquid methane being discovered there. well now, this was starting to sound interesting so my ears perked up. my professor then began to talk about where the carbon atom comes from. now ive never thought about where atoms came from, this was a new idea for me, and it seemed like this information could be pretty cool, and it was. so my teacher is going off about the big bang and gases and stars collapsing on themselves. apparently when the big bang happend hydrogen and helium were released. then as all these gases and other jank in space start spinning you have stars or something. well these stars freak out and collapse on each other and rediculous nuclar fusion stars to happen, where protons are fused to other protons making new atoms. at least i think that was how it went. then these atoms are released into space and billions of years later they find their way into the earth. so we, as humans, are carbon based life forms and carbon is everywhere on our earth. exciting huh... it gets better...

so God formed us from the dust of the earth... a.k.a. pieces of used up stars. so basically our bodies are constructed of "star dust". why don't you chew on that for a while...kinda cool huh? in the words of my organic professor, "This world is good!!", so is God!!(that last part is my own words).

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