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why the need to grandiosity?
just dust
nothing cosmic about it. And not dust at all, just a human typing on a screen. There's a purity to dust that we shouldn't reclaim. Is the moon full tonight?
Everything heavier than lithium was created either in the heart of a star over it's lifetime, or during its death in a supernova. We really are cosmic dust, or as Carl Segan called it, "Star Stuff".
Tonight the moon is gorgeously gibbous!
Nope, but tomorrow there's a lunar eclipse!