Between particle accelerators and fusion reactions of various kinds, there's probably at least a few kilograms of carbon and nitrogen on Earth that are man-made, and not the product of stellar fusion, right? Maybe, let's say, enough to make a person.
Let's say we made that person. Say we made a boy who, unlike you and me, is emphatically not made of star-stuff. Primordial ancient hydrogen and man-made carbon. Would he look up at the night sky and feel... what? Would he feel nothing? Would he stare at the pinpricks of light in the dark and well up with contempt?
