“Drexler agrees that posting a preprint would have avoided the publication and retraction of the paper. It didn’t seem necessary to rush the information out because it didn’t answer urgent public health questions, but “I do regret that in retrospect,” he says”

https://www.science.org/content/article/we-made-mistake-omicron-origin-study-retracted-after-widespread-criticism

We are all stardust.

That oxygen you breath? That comes from dying massive stars, ending their light in a supernova.

The iron in your blood? Some massive stars dying, but mainly white dwarfs, the leftovers of dwarf stars like our own Sun, exploding.

The gold ring on your finger? Mostly merging neutron stars, leftovers from supernovae.

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