Stardust…

https://youtu.be/gAN2lZIFwHg
STARDUST　BLUES

Hold on, we are stardust…

“Bryan G. Hughes, PhD, and Siegfried Hekimi, PhD, both researchers from McGill University in Montreal, reexamined population data used in a previous study and concluded there is not yet a known limit for human life expectancy.“

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24833121-300-you-are-stardust-the-long-view-of-when-your-existence-really-began/

“As anyone with a passing interest in Joni Mitchell’s back catalogue knows, we are stardust. It’s a nice line, and it also happens to be true, says Karel Schrijver, an astrophysicist at the Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center in California.”

https://youtu.be/cRjQCvfcXn0?t=64
Joni Mitchell – Woodstock

Most of your body’s trillions of atoms, from calcium in your bones and carbon in your genes to iron in your blood, were forged by nuclear reactions in ancient stars, either when they were burning or when they ended in fiery supernova explosions. Those atoms were recycled through the births and deaths of more stars until, at some point, they escaped for a while. “Our solar system captured these elements to make Earth and everything on it,” says Schrijver – including you.

https://youtu.be/zUAYVD5vXsg?t=15
Joni Mitchell – “Woodstock” Stardust Remix

In that sense, we can’t know exactly when we began: it depends how many generations of stars our atoms cycled through. But each of us is at least 4.6 billion years old, the age of the solar system, and perhaps as ancient as the universe’s first stars, which appeared some 13.7 billion years ago …

https://youtu.be/3n4dK9T0_fI
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