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universe 卡尔·萨根 1486Words 2018-03-20
Human exploration of the universe is exciting in retrospect.These explorations remind us that curiosity is human, that understanding is a pleasure, and that knowledge is a prerequisite for survival.Since we are but a speck of dust in the morning sky in this universe, we believe that the future of humanity depends on how well we understand this universe. ... Before the birth of life, the earth was once a barren and barren land.Right now, our planet is alive with life.Why did it become like this?How did carbon-core organic molecules form in the absence of life?How did the first organisms arise?How did organisms evolve to reproduce complex, advanced animals like us, capable of exploring our own mysteries? ...

If we lived on an unpredictable planet, we would not be able to understand things, and there would be no such thing as science.Here things are changing, and their changes follow certain patterns, rules, or so-called laws of nature.If we throw a bamboo pole into the air, the bamboo pole will always fall.If the sun sets in the west, it always rises in the east the next morning.So it is possible for us to understand things, we can do science and use science to improve our lives. ... The universe was once destroyed, and we humans are even known for being "good at inflicting disasters on ourselves intentionally or unintentionally".The other planets have preserved their past history, and there is ample evidence that they have experienced catastrophes.It's all just a matter of time.What is unthinkable in 100 years may be inevitable in 100 million years. ...

The power of Lowell's view may lie in making it a prophetic view.It was he who thought the Martians built the canal network.Even this view may become a certain prediction: if Mars is to be terraformed, it will be done by humans, and Mars is another planet that humans can permanently inhabit.The Martians would be us humans ourselves. ... On July 9, 1979, the Voyager 2 spacecraft reached the Jupiter system after almost two years of interplanetary voyage.The spacecraft is made up of millions of subassemblies, each with a spare, so that if one part fails, others take over.The spaceship weighs 0.9 tons, and a large house is needed to accommodate it. ...

The Kumbushmen in the Kalahari Desert in Botswana have a unique way of saying the Milky Way.They are in areas where the Milky Way is often just above their heads.Therefore, they call the Milky Way "the spine of the night sky", as if the sky is some kind of giant beast, and people live in the belly of the giant beast. ... The beach reminds us of the universe.The fine sand on the beach is basically uniform in size. They are formed by the impact and friction, erosion and weathering of large rocks by waves over many years, all of which are driven by the distant moon and sun. occurring.The beach also reminds us of time, the earth itself is much older than humans. ...

The Milky Way is still an unexplored world full of amazing stars.Although we have made preliminary explorations of the Milky Way, and are encountering some of the stars in it, some similar to those we know, and some more eccentric than we can imagine,  … 10 billion or 20 billion years ago, something amazing happened—the Big Bang, which exploded our universe.Why the Big Bang happened is the greatest mystery to us. ... We hope that in the not-too-distant future, in the foreseeable cosmic age, we will accomplish the great task of peacefully unifying our planet into an institution that cherishes every living being on our celestial body, and then move on to the next greatness with ease. At the same pace, turn the planet Earth into a part of a galactic society capable of interconnecting all civilizations. ...

Someday, on some planet in some distant star, a being that is very different from any of us may ask us to send them the latest version of the Encyclopedia of the Galaxy for the civilizations that just joined the galaxy Some information on this newest society of the community. Because we are incarnations of parts of the universe that have become self-aware, we have come to consider our own origins.We are contemplating the planet matter of other planets, which is a collection of 1028 atoms. We are exploring the evolution process of atoms, and we are tracking the long process of consciousness generation.We should be loyal to all human beings, and to the whole planet.We must speak up for the planet.Maintaining human existence is not only responsible to ourselves, but also to the universe, to this ancient, vast universe that gave birth to us.

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