our lonely speck
- April 15, 2022
- chuyu
“Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.” - Carl Sagan The Golden Record, a single copper disk containing the sights and sounds representing humanity and life on Earth, was launched by NASA in 1977 for some sentient extraterrestrial life out there. Ce…