She said: "This is the way it happens, I think: Every so often a distant star up in the heavens dies. You know, everything eventually dies, even stars. Well, with stars, right before they die, they caste off the best part of themselves; they caste off their intelligence, and this intelligence travels great distances in the void of space, looking for a place to land and grow. Sometimes it lands here, on Earth. All you have to do is pick up a history book and you can identify pretty quickly the places were "star smarts" have made their way to us. It's only happened a few times, but they kind of stick out. Like, out of the mire of poverty and slavery and all kind of wars and diseases and pain and death there comes a period where everything gets better for everyone, all at once. That's the star intelligence working its magic here. People call it a miracle, but its really the star stuff. But it doesn't last forever. You know the Humans start working real hard to mess things up again. But if you're patient and you last long enough, you can tell that the dying stars are helping us out again. I'm hoping that I can live long enough to see it happen again. We sure could use some of that intelligence right now. We surely could."

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