There are more than 100 billion galaxies scattered throughout the visible universe....Small galaxies have fewer than a billion stars. Large galaxies have more than a trillion. Abraham Lincoln -- "the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery... of new and useful things." There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be." Douglas Adams "Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe. We should not say I am an Athenian or I am a Roman but I am a citizen of the Universe. " (Marcus Aurelius, Meditations) "A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." Albert Einstein Earth is home. Evolution connects us all. Death comes to all. On this blue Planet we the human species are united by our common habitation, our <b>...</b>