"Now she faced the spacefarers' truth, that the one thing we know for certain about this universe is that it is implacable."
-CHAPTER FOUR, p. 224.
Cosmic implacability is perpetually evident to spacefarers because they have to be continually protected either from vacuum in space or from an unbreathable atmosphere and other hostile conditions on a planetary surface. Earth is the one place in the universe where we do not die immediately. But the implacability is here, nevertheless. Gravity gets us if we fall from a height. And I need hardly list other dangers and threats. Spacefarers see Earth as a borderless unity and the only (so far) abode of life so maybe life on Earth needs to be based on "the spacefarers' truth."
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Kaor, Paul!
And I believe what mankind, all human beings, should do is not to be daunted by that cosmic implacability, refuse to cower on Earth, but to defy the universe! Which is why I hope so much Elon Musk soon founds his Mars colony, refusing to be satisfied with only Earth.
Setbacks and losses will be inevitable, but I hope that does not stop the human race from leaving Earth!
Ad astra! Sean
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