Life: A Thermodynamic Miracle

Did you know that gold can only be created in a supernova? That nucleosynthetic process is the only place gold comes from.

Thermodynamic miracles. Events with odds against so astronomical they are effectively impossible, like oxygen spontaniously becoming gold. I think most would long to observe such a thing.
And yet, in each human coupling , a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive; meeting; siring this precise son; that exact daughter.
Until your mother loves a man that she maybe has every reason to hate, and of that union, of the thousand million children competing for fertilization, it is you, and only you, that emerges.
To distill so specific a form from that chaos of improbability, like turning air to gold.

This is the crowning unlikelihood.
The thermodynamic miracle.
The same goes for anybody in the world. For everybody in the world.
But we gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. That world is so full of people, so crowded with these miracles that they become commonplace and we forget how cosmically rare our existence really is. You are the most important thing in the entire universe.
You are Life.

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• life
• thermodynamic
• miracle
• watchmen
• scientific
• Doctor Manhattan

[celticoz]

Think of how many sperm shoot out per ejaculation. Think about how many times a man ejaculates on there life. The odds for your one sperm out of all those created you. Now think about how many generations before you had the same chance of life. In retrospec we are the very very lucky to exist a ridiculous chance and yet we complain about the smallest most insignificant things.

[ValkyrieTakesMySoul]

just the most amazing and crown achievement of hollywood

[dchris1990]

the difference between the superb lines/ soliloquey of this video, and the stupidity of most of the comments below it is nothing short of a miracle..

[thesouthrapsucks]

suck a ARAB COCK

[GreySunday17]

@thesouthrapsucks Why, because they're right? You must be some emo kid sad to be alive. If so, stop whining and do us all a favour... Yeah, you know what to do.

[butifarra61]

the best paradoxical comment of any movie ever.

[thesouthrapsucks]

@celticoz fuck you

[kingkirby117]

@ololololololololoism God you seem like an asshole.... anyway i'll be glad to die of old age =D

[ololololololololoism]

@kingkirby117 Hope is irrelevant and luck is for the weak. I neither want or need either.

This discussion is concluded, feel free to die now.

[epsilon881]

Love this movie. Every second of it.

[PeterStevens01]

Anyone ever used this as a chat up line?

I imagine it helps if you're glowing bright blue, naked, buff and stood on Mars while you're saying it, no??