Reply #9: We are all made of star-stuff [View All]

[Ian David]

The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore we’ve learned most of what we know. Recently, we’ve waded a little way out, maybe ankle-deep, and the water seems inviting. Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return. And we can’t, because the cosmos is also within us. We’re "made" of star stuff.
-- Carl Sagan, Cosmos

1) Earth is tiny.

2) "Space," says Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, "Is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you might think it's a long walk down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."

3) There is more stuff in space which is very big than on Earth which is very small.

4) Therfore, it is more likely that something comes from the vastness of space than from the tininess of Earth.