My parents weren’t big on letting us watch much TV as kids. Mostly it was Masterpiece Theatre and the occasional non-PBS type fare such as “Bridge on the River Kwai – because it has Alec Guinness in it”. No, he has nothing to do with the beer, and he’s not Alec Baldwin’s dad, you know – Obi Wan Kenobi. (Actually Star Wars was one of the few movies we saw in the theater; I now suspect probably for the same reason.)
So it’s been a nostalgia tour for me Netflix-ing my way through Carl Sagan’s Cosmos. I’m on the fifth out of seven discs now and randomly came across this picture surfing the internet:
The rest of the story behind that picture can be viewed here at rense.com. I had originally imagined this post titled “Insignificance” with just the first picture and the link but decided to change it.
There’s something about learning exactly how small we all are in the grand scheme of things that actually makes living life more significant, not less.