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[Neil deGrasse Tyson] |
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The act of moving onward means we pass these sign posts |
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One of them was first leaving earth |
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The next one is hanging out on the moon |
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What's next? The planets |
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Onward to the edge |
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We're moving onward to the edge |
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Here we are together |
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This fragile little world |
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[Brian Cox] |
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This is our sun |
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Just another star in a sea of stars |
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The heart of the solar system |
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Just another star in a sea of stars |
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Mercury is the closest planet |
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This tortured piece of rock has been stripped naked |
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[Tyson] |
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The moon has a sky |
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It has a horizon |
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It's another world |
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It's got earth in the sky |
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Just the way we have the moon in the sky |
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(refrain) |
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We're not the only world to think about |
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Worlds unnumbered |
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We're not the only world to think about |
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Think about worlds unnumbered |
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[Carolyn Porco] |
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There is a powerful recognition |
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That stirs within us |
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When we see our own little blue ocean planet |
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In the skies of other worlds |
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The Saturn system |
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Offers splendor beyond compare |
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Because of its rings |
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And very diverse moons |
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[Tyson] |
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These are no longer abstractions |
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These are worlds |
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Maybe there's life there |
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They've changed how we think about Earth |
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[Cox] |
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"A mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam |
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The pale blue dot" (Carl Sagan) |
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(refrain) |
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The laws of nature create |
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Vastly different worlds |
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With the tiniest of changes |
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[Tyson] |
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When I reach to the edge of the universe |
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I do so knowing that along some paths of cosmic discovery |
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There are times when, at least for now, |
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One must be content to love the questions themselves |