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Originally Posted by ZTT
'See these beautiful stars twinkling in the night sky? Due to how long it takes the light from them to reach us, we see them as they were years ago, not now. Amazing right?
By now those stars may have all disappeared and we don't even know it
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I wrote a poem about that once, how what we see when we look up is memories of light
then delved into how we are actually made of dead stars, which can be explained in one sentence (supernova unleashes the elements of the exploded star into the cosmos, some of which lands on earth where it's used by every living being on it)
how wild would it be if one looked up, on clear night, to view the lights of a star so far away, and have it be dead with the elements from its supernova inside ones own body?
De Grasse Tyson and Wilde put it more eloquently tho, and I like your description better