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It is a sobering thought, then, to consider that virtually all of the elements above #2 (helium, the fusion product of the hydrogen that makes up the stars, our sun included) are the result of the catastrophic blowing apart of prior suns, and that our earth and everything else in our own solar system are mere cosmic hand-me-downs from someone else's supernova.
A teenager wearing a neat pair of trousers, probably hand-me-downs since they are much too short--so short that he would not need to pull them up to walk through water--evokes the arch query from his peers, You expecting flood?