The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. - H. P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu ok thats probably not what this will lead to, I was just being melodramatic but yea, who would have guessed that in a sprawling universe, those who inhabit earth arent the only intelligent life forms out there. I think the odds that we are alone in the universe are relatively small, though that doesnt give justification to the idea of little green men or anything like that.
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 16:12:25 +0000
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