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for the pale blue dot
for the pale blue dot
You might enjoy two humbling items on waitbutwhy.com, "The Fermi Paradox", and "Putting Time in Perspective".
I think we are mostly much too complacent about preserving our beautiful planet.
Dangerous lunatics insist on killing each other in various hotspots while we should be making sure the forests survive and the seas aren't poisoned by plastic nodules. Even the basic plankton in the Antarctic has been found to have heavily ingested plastic nodules. If the plankton dies it's a good bet the planet dies soon after. The lunatics we can easily survive without.