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It's fascinating that the death of a star can bring life. Basically when a star dies there will be a lot of carbon, oxygen and hydrogen - the building blocks for life, and there are a lot of dead star remains floating around in space. It's almost like if the whole big bang process was made in order to create life.

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If you look at a result, then at the conditions that lead to it, you could always say that it’s almost as though those conditions were intended to lead to that result. It’s somewhat tautological.

And it takes several cycles of life and death for a planetary cloud to build up the heavier metals. I've only had my requisite college chemistry, but it has always seemed peculiar/lucky/surprising to me that every element on the periodic table occurs on Earth (save for those unstable lab-made concoctions). It's unclear to me how common this condition is in the universe, but of course in an infinite universe everything is inevitable :)

Yeh I've thought about that also that the earth has so many elements, while the Hayabusa2 asteroid is mostly carbon star-dust. However besides oxygen we are made mostly of carbon. And for example the amount of gold on earth is likely the same rate all across the universe give or take (it's not super common).

Maybe life is just an efficient way to increase entropy and thus it will arise wherever the requisite conditions are available.

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