What a Human Life is Worth … Part 01 : the Perspective ( 03 / 03 / 2015 )
What a Human Life is Worth … Part 01 : the Perspective ( 03 / 03 / 2015 )
FACT -- You are only one of roughly 7 billion humans living on one small planet orbiting one small star in one back-eddy ― rural ‖ neighborhood of one small galaxy in one relatively insignificant cluster of galaxies ; all surrounded by literally billions of similar clusters of galaxies of neighborhoods of stars containing millions of planets like ours … Indeed , even though we are alive & well here on planet Earth , and even though we each do indeed have ― important things to do ‖, we are simultaneously almost lost within the overwhelming vastness that is the rest of the Universe .
“ The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding . Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home . In a cosmic perspective , most human concerns seem insignificant , even petty ...” ~ Carl Sagan
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