All life is sacred. And it’s partly because of its complexity that we’ve seen here on this one planet. But also astronomy has shown us that all life came about through thirteen and a half billion years of tiny miracles of self organization inside stars and nebulae and galaxies. All from light!
every year I see people getting excited about MLB Opening Day, which for us fans of the Angels is just the day we get to turn on the Torment Nexus again
(anyway watch out for the vinyl record I’m making with my musician wife, “You Were Light,” coming later this year, a recording of a planetarium show on this exact topic)
Yes I know this is hippie/peace and love stuff, and in the modern world that’s seen as “weak” but I don’t really care. Astronomy teaches us to feel special, and a humming, strange, complicated part of everything else around us. The Earth and the Environment are more incredible because of astronomy!
last year ESPN dropped the Angels from #1 on their "MLB aggrieved fan index" down to #4 even after listing 8 team nightmares that made them notably worse only because "this chaos is now the norm." Folks,