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“The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.”
— Carl Sagan
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Globular Cluster NGC 1850
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Spectacular Saturn, observed by the Cassini space probe on September 9, 2016. (Kevin Gill)
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Europa & Io moons orbiting Jupiter, captured by the Cassini space probe | source
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We are absolutely nothing | source
Professor Brian Cox explaining that we are absolutely nothing
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
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Michio Kaku on Alien Megastructure Found
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If we looked down at the world from space, we would not see any demarcations of national boundaries. We would simply see one small planet, just one.
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The Story Of Earth And Life
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George Carlin – Arrogance of mankind
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Kepler-452b
NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed the first near-Earth-size planet in
the “habitable zone” around a sun-like star. This discovery and the
introduction of 11 other new small habitable zone candidate planets mark another milestone in the journey to finding another "Earth."
