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We May Be Living At That Moment, On The Cusp, When We Go From Being A Species That Feels A Kind Of Loneliness In The Cosmos To Actually One Sometime In The Not Too Distant Future Being Able To Confirm The Existence Of Other Intelligent Life.

A Lot Of People Have This Ego Need That Makes Them Want To Believe That Earth Is The Center Of The Universe And Humans Are The Most Important Species, The Supreme Expression Of Creation.

I Guess I So Desperately Want To See Us Put This Planet Right. It's So Horrifying To Me That A Fifth Of Us Are Starving Every Night, And That Forty Thousand Children Die Every Single Day.

Knowing A Deep Thing Well, Which Is What Science Asks Of Its Practitioners, Is An Empowerment That Is Very Profound. It's A Liberation.

And What Greater Might Do We Possess As Human Beings Than Our Capacity To Question And To Learn?