When we look at the night sky, we are looking at light that the stars began sending us millions of years ago. In fact, by the time we see the starlight, the star that radiated it might not even exist anymore. We are looking deeply into space, but we are seeing backward into time. The greater the distance of a star from an observer on earth, the longer it takes the star's light to reach the observer.
Such is the wisdom of history, the biographies of leaders and revolutionaries, builders and titans, artist and entertainers, scientist and poets. Many of these heroes lived many years ago, yet their light is only reaching us now. Technology advances at a neck-breaking speed in this day and age. I can only imagine how incredible our world would be if our wisdom advances together with our technology.
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