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It's completely by accident that our little planet has clear night skies. Our solar system could very well have been inside a bright nebula, or closer to the galactic center. Our night skies then would have been a bright haze, rather than filled with stars, planets and galaxies.

If that would have been the case, we would have never overcome our primitive beliefs. It was looking up at the stars that we wondered, aspired to reach them and made up stories about how the heavens control our lives (astrology is not a science). It was looking up at planets that we figured out that we're not at the center of the universe and our collective narcissism was challenged. It was when we discovered that there are other worlds out there, we gave up religion as the only source of truth, and allowed science to improve our lives. Come to think of it, it's a complete accident that we are where we are, as a planet and as a species...

Kinda sad that most of us spend our lives believing in the fantasies painted by old stories as the truth. It's sad that we don't accept science as the truth at times and also, that science too has been corrupted by greed. Maybe all of us should look up more...

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Garden of Silence, Chandigarh