Cosmos as Home
We are made of stellar ash. Something in us recognizes the Cosmos as home, as our origin and evolution have been tied to distant cosmic events, and we are the children of equally of the sky and the Earth.
However, the Cosmos was discovered only yesterday, as for many years it was clear to everyone that there were no other places than the Earths. Indeed, in the last tenth of a percent of the lifetime of our species, in the instant between Aristarchus and ourselves, we reluctantly noticed that we were not the purpose and center of the Universe, but rather lived on a fragile world lost in immensity and eternity of the Cosmos. Our small world drifts in a great cosmic ocean dotted here and there with a hundred billion galaxies and a billion trillion stars…
(Extract from The Rain, the famous SF novel by Elena and George B.)
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