https://www.sigma3ioc.com/post/short-now-here-is-some-perspective-to-absorbe

Can’t argue with the man:

There are 400,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars in the universe and we live on a planet orbiting around just one of them, and we are here for such a short moment in time: https://youtube.com/shorts/eu4boQE_PA0?si=jCXGLCO7I78G1ZFv

Kind of gives you and the all-consuming issues of life and existence a bit of a different perspective.

Be humble, be happy, because we are all taking the ride eventually.

Make the best of it :)

Are You Paying Attention Yet America? JGL 10/6/25

https://static.wixstatic.com/media/e691e8_d055bd55b90b4a758c46f65f2ba777fa~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_925,h_578,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_avif,quality_auto/e691e8_d055bd55b90b4a758c46f65f2ba777fa~mv2.jpg

The answer would appear to be yes, clearly.

Why?

1) “Intense” star formation forms many stars in a relatively short period of time (many more than usual).

2) With so many stars being formed shortly, a certain proportion (bell-shaped curve)—ergo, more of them—will be large, massive, bright stars; which inevitably burn through their nuclear fuel much more quickly than smaller stars, and thus have relatively short lifespans (a few millions rather than billions of years or longer).

3) When (quantities of) such large stars “burn out” they typically go via supernova explosions—numbers of them when more large stars run through their allotted spans in relatively short order.

Ergo, Q.E.D.