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Tell us something sciencey that you are awed and astonished by

That whole thing about the living body merely being a temporary arrangement of atoms, which didn't exactly originate here on Earth.

Material from space rains down on us all the time, and we are all made out of that stuff. Literal star dust.

A tiny fraction of the material which make up our material selves has actually been in space less than a thousand years ago!

That's incredible.

So the next time your stoner friend is blathering on about being one with the universe and all.. just remember.. there is a lot of truth in that.
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Gusman · 61-69, M
It would take 2,540,000 years to get to our nearest Galactic neighbour, Andromeda, travelling at the speed of light.