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After 13.8 billion years
of cosmic history,

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our universe has woken up

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and become aware of itself.

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From a small blue planet,

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

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with telescopes,

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discovering something humbling.

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We've discovered that our universe
is vastly grander

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than our ancestor's imagined,

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

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on an otherwise dead universe.

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But we've also discovered
something inspiring,

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

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to help life flourish like never before,

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not just for centuries
but for billions of years,

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and not just on earth but throughout