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“If man merely sat back and thought about his impending termination,<br />

and his terrifying insignificance and aloneness in the<br />

cosmos, he would surely go mad, or succumb to a numbing<br />

sense of futility. Why, he might ask himself, should he bother<br />

to write a great symphony, or strive to make a living, or even to<br />

love another, when he is no more than a momentary microbe<br />

on a dust mote whirling through the unimaginable immensity<br />

of space?”<br />

Stanley Kubrick<br />

1968<br />

Men denna rymdens storhet, vår litenhet, skrämmer mig inte,<br />

utan jag fascineras av det intrikata sambandet mellan allt, hur vi<br />

hör samman med världsrymden, hur, som Sagan sade, ”we are<br />

a way for the cosmos to know itself.” Att Jorden är den enda<br />

plats där vi funnit liv, och att det här myllrar av det nästan vart<br />

än vi ser, gör den bara än mer fantastisk och värd att ta vara på.<br />

Vår civilisation är en del av detta liv, och den gråa vardagen är<br />

en viktig del av vår civilisation.

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