I'm reading a neat book called 'Impossible Extinction'. I got a chuckle out of this quote.

"Some parents will tell their young children that babies come from under gooseberry bushes, but this isn't entirely accurate. Babies actually come from supernovas; explosions of stars that died during the formation of our galaxy ten billion years ago. All of us are made from the atoms generated in these violent stellar explosions. Your parents merely assembled these atoms into you, but that was a much less energy-intensive task and so they shouldn't take too much credit for your existence."

Hee hee.

As a side note, what's with people not using the proper plural form of nouns? It's supernovae, not supernovas. Same with virii vs. viruses. I will use viruses when talking about more than one computer virus, but not when talking about biological virii.