On the day that we do discover that we are not alone, our society may begin to evolve and transform in some incredible and wondrous new ways.

Not all bits have equal value.

The immense distances to the stars and the galaxies mean that we see everything ins pace int he past, some as they were before the Earth came to be. Telescopes are time machines.

We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged.

He sought a way to preserve the past. John Hershel was one of the founders of a new form of time travel.... a means to capture light and memories. He actually coined a word for it... photography. When you think about it, photography is a form of time travel. This man is staring at us from across the centuries, a ghost preserved by light.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.