I am, like you, travelling along a road of absolute uncertainty and chaos. The only truth is that one day, we will all reach the end.
The beauty of Mars exists in the human mind,_ he said in that dry factual tone, and everyone stared at him amazed. __ithout the human presence it is just a collection of atoms, no different than any other random speck of matter in the universe. It__ we who understand it, and we who give it meaning. All our centuries of looking up at the night sky and watching it wander through the stars. All those nights of watching it through the telescopes, looking at a tiny disk trying to see canals in the albedo changes. All those dumb sci-fi novels with their monsters and maidens and dying civilizations. And all the scientists who studied the data, or got us here. That__ what makes Mars beautiful. Not the basalt and the oxides
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The beauty of Mars exists in the human mind,_ he said in that dry factual tone, and everyone stared at him amazed. __ithout the human presence it is just a collection of atoms, no different than any other random speck of matter in the universe. It__ we who understand it, and we who give it meaning. All our centuries of looking up at the night sky and watching it wander through the stars. All those nights of watching it through the telescopes, looking at a tiny disk trying to see canals in the albedo changes. All those dumb sci-fi novels with their monsters and maidens and dying civilizations. And all the scientists who studied the data, or got us here. That__ what makes Mars beautiful. Not the basalt and the oxides
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