I am made from the dust of the stars and the oceans flow in my veins

Yanked from dglenn"

Scientists find star dust at the bottom of the Pacific. They're thinking it was sent here along with about 300,000 years of increased cosmic radiation 3 million years ago that happened about the same time Africa's climate dried up and it started having a savannah.

I remember working at Fermilab and attending a lecture on cosmic radiation. The presenter put a small detecter into a bowl of water. We watched if flash about once a minute. He remarked, "It's interesting to consider that roughly once perminute, a cosmic ray collides with one of the particles making up your brain." It's been something that informed my theology ever since.