When too much cynicism threatens to engulf us, it is buoying to remember how pervasive goodness is - Carl Sagan

We invented phonetic writing so we could put
our sounds down on paper and, by glancing at a page, hear someone speaking in our head — an invention that became so widespread in the last few thousand years that we hardly ever stop to consider how astonishing it is

Kita masih menyebut matahari TERBIT dan TENGGELAM. Sudah 2.200 tahun semenjak Aristarkhos tapi bahasa kita masih mengatakan seakan-akan bumi tidak berputar.

That place, called the heliopause, is one definition of the outer boundary of the Empire of the Sun. But the Voyager spacecraft will plunge on, penetrating the heliopause sometime in the middle of the twenty-first century, skimming through the ocean of space, never to enter another solar system, destined to wander through eternity far from the stellar islands and to complete its first circumnavigation of the massive center of the Milky Way a few hundred million years from now. We have embarked on epic voyages.