The Universe and Our Life

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Its not about a race or caste or country or creed, its about mortals, its about life. Focused on short-term gain we are so busy fighting each other, on the basis of race, caste, money, colour, sex, town, city, state, country and on every possible way through which we could show the world that we are supreme. But we forget in our puny fights that the actual villain of our lives will show itself after million years. If we are so smart the way we think we are then we wouldn't be living the lies. Earth which has been sustaining us for the past million years would be the one at the end destroying our lives and our mark would be diminished from the cosmic time. And if we are that smart the way we think we are then we wouldn't fight among us and come together use our intelligence to fight the actual villain and cheat it, if possible. Life of our descendants depends on what we do today.
Life itself sends its own stories across billions of years. It's a message that every one of us carries inside, inscribed in all the cells of our bodies, in a language that all life on Earth can read. The genetic code is written in an alphabet consisting of only four letters. Each letter is a molecule made of atoms, each word is three letters long. Every living thing is a masterpiece, written by nature and edited by evolution; the instructions for running and reproducing the intricate machinery of life. The essential message of life has been copied and recopied for more than 3 billion years. We still carry within us the echoes of these extinct civilizations in our languages and our myths
Today, we have a single global civilization. How long will it live? There are so many ways for a civilization to die. If an eruption were to happen tomorrow, our civilizat...

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...t, far-seeing, capable and wise. For all our failings, despite our flaws and limitations, we humans are capable of greatness.
What new wonders, undreamt of in our time, will we have accomplished in another generation and another? How far will our nomadic species have wandered by the end of the next century, and the next millennium?Our remote descendants, safely arrayed on many worlds throughout the solar system and beyond, will be unified by their common heritage, by their regard for their home planet, and by their knowledge that, whatever other life may be, the only humans in all the universe came from Earth. They will gaze up and strain to find the blue dot in their skies. They will marvel at how vulnerable the repository of all our potential once was, how perilous our infancy, how humble our beginnings, how many rivers we had to cross before we found our way.

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