(06-01-2018 03:33 PM)NIU007 Wrote: (06-01-2018 11:34 AM)Attackcoog Wrote: Cant decide if I find this spooky as hell or strangely reassuring. Either we are being scouted for someones future dinner or there is some silent supervision quietly making sure we dont screw things up too bad.
Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.
Either that or it was Wonderwoman with the invisible aircraft.
I've often said that somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
We're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
Maybe Carl Sagan said that, but whatevs.