Inception

Of all the 200 million centuries along the ruler Of time, 199,999,999 centuries Are in darkness. Only one is lit up. That's the one in which we happen, By sheer luck, to be alive. Life grows up in the universe by gradual degrees, Evolution. And we grow up in our understanding of our Origins and our meaning. We don't know how likely it is that there Is anybody up there. We could say that if our message does hit Another planet, then almost certainly it'll be so Far away that if those people up there had A telescope looking back at us, Then what they would be seeing is not us At all. Faraday said, "What is the use of a baby?" I've always thought that what he meant by that Must be that a baby has such potential. It may not be able to do very much Now, but it will be able to do a Lot.