Posted: 07 November 2018 at 7:52am | IP Logged | 5
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The Press doesn’t seem to want to let this one go. Pretty much the same cut-and-paste articles on Google news for a week or more. Different sources, same words. What’s sad is the underlying message: WE DON’T WANT TO BE UNIMPORTANT. We really hate the idea of being, as Carl Sagan put it, part of a biological film coating—my words now—an utterly inconsequential lump of rock. We want extraterrestrials to find us fascinating, well worth the time and effort of crossing interstellar distances to come here to check us out. The more the Universe has revealed of itself, the less important we have become. Aliens now sub for angels. O, well. At least aliens are probably real!
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