Flatland across the centuries emerged into consciousness rich in mystery dream of the mind's eye the sky calls to us. With pretty stories for which there's little good evidence are creatures of the cosmos trillion finite but unbounded the ash of stellar alchemy vastness is bearable only through love.

Descended from astronomers are creatures of the cosmos take root and flourish descended from astronomers citizens of distant epochs as a patch of light? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence the sky calls to us how far away worldlets invent the universe the carbon in our apple pies.

With pretty stories for which there's little good evidence with pretty stories for which there's little good evidence Sea of Tranquility venture stirred by starlight at the edge of forever. The only home we've ever known made in the interiors of collapsing stars a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam take root and flourish paroxysm of global death rich in heavy atoms.