our lonely speck

“Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.” - Carl Sagan The Golden Record, a single copper disk containing the sights and sounds representing humanity and life on Earth, was launched by NASA in 1977 for some sentient extraterrestrial life out there. Centuries later, the record has finally been found. But when the being who discovered it ventures out to s...