3/30/15 We Are Made Of Star Dust and Turds?

    Carl Sagan said "The cosmos is within us.  We are made of star-stuff...".  Lawrence M Krauss goes further "the amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded.  And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand.  It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: you are all stardust.  You couldn't be here if stars hadn't exploded..."
    Those are really beautiful words.  If we accept that the universe is billions of years old and we believe the scientists with all their fancy technical equipment and degrees and theories.  Yes, we are created in a soup from atoms from all over the galaxy.  This earth is here right now and it is our home, but in due time the whole solar system will either collapse when the sun burns out, or possibly our galaxy (milky way) collides with another galaxy.  When either of these options occurs, our matter will then be strewn throughout the galaxy, and thus one day a star will burn with fragments of us within it.  This of course, over several billion years, not next year.
    While we are here, we have the capacity to open and discover secrets of the universe.  We all start out with this wonderful ability, and as I read in Happy Accidents, even when not looking to make breakthrough discoveries, sometimes they still happen.
    The flip side to this, is that although we all posess the ability to be great, few of us, get to be great. I have given up any notions that I will matter long term, but that does not mean that I believe that of my boys.  I will keep feeding them with anything that encourages and leads them to scientific pursuits.  Their success collectively becomes our success.  Anything that improves us as humans, I consider a good and positive thing.
    Do we have to believe that people that show no interest in anything but themselves, that go through life just taking, never giving, never contributing, are they too made of star dust?  Is it not possible that in other stars, there was also poop, and thus technically they are also of star stuff, but mostly the equivalent of the beaks and assholes of the star stuff remains?
    It is easy to say "but he was given more opportunities to succeed, thus it is unfair to compare apples to oranges."  This is america, everyone starts out on equal footing, until the parents start tripping their own kids, letting them stay home, not pushing them in school, trying to be a kids' friend.  Everyone is or can be an apple on the first day of school.