You may have heard that this week, NASA announced its discovery of seven exoplanets in a solar system 39 light years from Earth that could potentially host life. What a thing! It’s pretty humbling to be reminded that, in the words of Yakko Warner (of Animaniacs fame), “It’s a great big universe, and we’re all really puny.” Given, this probably won’t be terribly humbling to certain all-powerful narcissists “in charge” of the “free world” or whatever, but dang, it’s humbling to me! Maybe to you, too. If not…well:
Yeah. I thought so. So whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown—no, but actually, the Monty Python “Universe Song” is this song’s wakko (heh) British uncle—just remember that the universe is “big and black and inky, and we are small and dinky.” Maybe it’ll make how awful everything has been of late just a little more tolerable. If not—I don’t know, go read some Zen parables or something.
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