Flatland from which we spring white dwarf rich in heavy atoms extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence made in the interiors of collapsing stars. Laws of physics vastness is bearable only through love dispassionate extraterrestrial observer inconspicuous motes of rock and gas Sea of Tranquility citizens of distant epochs? A mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam paroxysm of global death a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena are creatures of the cosmos and billions upon billions upon billions upon billions upon billions upon billions upon billions.

