Quote Originally Posted by zxc View Post
That's really what you want in life: you want to feel connected, you want to feel relevant. You want to feel like you're a participant in the goings on of activities and events around you.
Back to Hamlet... maybe all we really want in life is to prolong our present experience just for the fear caused by us not being able to remember the past and know for sure what's beyond?

Besides, the 'fact' that the heavy elements were formed in the stars, as far as I know, is not a fact, but part of the theory (= an information model) that attempts to explain the fact of us being able to detect those heavy elements. There might be some future facts which would disprove that theory. So, don't trust that a way too much.