Stardust

= **This week's discussion is optional and for 10 points of extra credit.** = The points you earn will be added to your lowest score (in any category) to raise it to a maximum of 100% of the total value. If there are points remaining, they will be added to another assignment.

Choose a quote from the selection below, and discuss it in a new thread. Explain what the author meant, using what you know about the scientific theory of the origin of the elements. Do you agree with the quote? How does it make you feel?

Your post should be at least 3-5 well constructed sentences.

Respond to at least 1 other classmate.

__**QUOTES**__

"Physicists say we are made of stardust. Intergalactic debris and far-flung atoms, shards of carbon nanomatter rounded up by gravity to circle the sun. As atoms pass through an eternal revolving door of possible form, energy and mass dance in fluid relationship. We are stardust, we are man, we are thought. We are story." — Glenda Burgess ( [|The Geography of Love: A Memoir] )

“To a romantic we are star dust, to a cynic we are nuclear waste.” — Anonymous

//"We are stardust, we are golden,// //We are billion year old carbon,// //And we got to get ourselves back to the garden,"// //— Joni Mitchell (singer/songwriter)-Woodstock//


 * "Stars mimic living systems. They are born, live to maturity at metabolic rates determined by their masses, and die, spewing forth the matter by which their stellar offspring can take form. Throughout, they convert the light atoms of their birth into the heavier ones dispersed at death. The chemicals that constitute our beings were manufactured in the bowels of stars that today exist only as memories." — George A. Seielstad, "Cosmic Ecology," 1983.**

— Allan Sandage, in an obituary to Geoffrey Burbidge
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