Footprints and Cosmos

Footprints and Cosmos

Footprints are very evocative as they show where others have gone before.

The Laetoli hominid footprints, discovered in 1977, are fossilized imprints of our earliest ancestors, preserved in volcanic tuff. These footprints are 3,6 million years old, ear are almost indistinguishable from a human footprint.

When Neil Armstrong trod on the surface of the Moon, images of his footprints were instantly recognized as symbols of humankind’s first tentative steps into the Cosmos.

(Extract from The Rain, the famous SF novel by Elena and George).

We have always left our footprints. Illustration: Elena