Vídeo: Life Looks for Life

Os dejo aquí un maravilloso vídeo de Reid Gower, que ha compuesto un hermoso puzzle audiovisual titulado The Sagan Series. Creo que ahora anda con las Feynman Series.

As children, we fear the dark.

The unknown troubles us.

Anything might be out there.

Ironically, it's our fate to live in the dark.

Head out from the earth in any direction you choose

and, after an initial flash of blue,

you're surrounded by blackness.

Punctuated -only here and there-

by the faint and distant stars.

Even after we're grown

the darkness retains its power to frighten us.

And so there are those who say we should not enquire too closely

into who else might be living in that darkness.

Better not to know, they say.

There are four hundred billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

Of this immense multitude,

could it be that our humdrum sun

is the only one with an inhabited planet?

Maybe...

...maybe the origin of life

-or intelligence-

is exceedingly improbable.

Or maybe

civilizations arise all the time

but wipe themselves out as soon as they are able.

Or, here and there,

peppered accross space,
maybe there are worlds something like our own,

on which other beings gaze up

and wonder as we do,

about who else lives in the dark.

Life is a comparative rarity.

You can survey dozens of worlds

and find that in only one of them

does life arise,

and evolve,

and persist.

If we humans ever go to those worlds

then it will be because of a nation

-or a consortium of them-

believes it to be to its advantage

or the advantage of the human species.

In our time,

we've crossed the solar system

and sent four ships to the stars.

But we continue to search for inhabitants.

Life looks for life.

CARL SAGAN (1934-1996)

Tenéis todos los créditos en la página que aloja el vídeo.

Felices Fiestas, o felices fiestas (como prefiráis).

Un gran abrazo.