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...spent another half an hour at the screen, taking advantage of its forthright answers to a veritable maze of cosmic quandaries. As a teenager I had appreciated such certainties; as an adult I was tempted to make fun of them. My secular college professors had insisted that truth is always complicated, relative, but I still felt the tug of religious absolutism. Watching a woman in a wheelchair beside me earnestly punching up answers on her screen, I concluded I was not alone...
...wonder, curiosity and inquiry. The drive to produce, compete and conquer hardens us to the mysteries of life and the universe. The amazing achievement of Pathfinder, as well as other space missions, ought to reawaken in us that lost sense of wonder, awe and reverence. Rather than feeling cosmic loneliness, I for one sense a deeper, more abiding connection with the universe in all its mystery, which is still unfolding and is unending. DAVID T. MAYSCHAK Wasilla, Alaska...
...COSMIC NEIGHBORHOOD...
...would not, however, characterize it as "hurtling" through space to that theater near you. It proceeds very slowly through many banal deliberations about cosmic enigmas to a comfortably reassuring conclusion in which scientific humanism and vaguely uplifting religiosity are squishily reconciled...
What should one do with the knowledge that we are alone in the universe? In a lovely piece in the New York Times, John Noble Wilford cited with some melancholy our "cosmic loneliness." One could go anywhere with that daunting thought. We could conclude that we humans are a special breed, appointed by universal forces to planet-hop and rule. It would be like us to think that--every dead brown rock on every dead brown planet serving to exalt our life by contrast. We are the fireworks in the darkened universe, the Chinese firecrackers, the Roman candles...