Billy wrote:
songbird wrote:
....
You know that we are stardust? Except for hydrogen, all the other
elements were made in stars. It's a marvelous place that we live in.
How far away is that star, or that star? How far away determines when
you are seeing it, and the further away it is, the faster it is moving
away from us. Earth is about 5.7 billion years old, but our kind have
only been around about 2 million years (3.50877e-5ths of it's
existence.)

yeah, and we are perhaps the only
critter within vast chunks of space
that actually knows this and yet we
are still stupid enough to pollute our
food, water and shelter.


fireflies are going gonzo now here so those
are the stars i see.

I've only seen them once, and it was a magical time.

i wish a movie could do it justice.

years ago when i lived in TN there was
talk of fireflies that synchronised their
flashes. i never did get to see them.


songbird