After 13.8 billion years
of cosmic history,

our universe has woken up

and become aware of itself.

From a small blue planet,

tiny, concious parts of our universe
have begun gazing out into the cosmos

with telescopes,

discovering something humbling.

We've discovered that our universe
is vastly grander

than our ancestor's imagined,

and that life seems to be an almost
imprectibly small [protobation]

on an otherwise dead universe.

But we've also discovered
something inspiring,

which is that the technology
we're developing has the potential

to help life flourish like never before,

not just for centuries
but for billions of years,

and not just on earth but throughout