Despite the petty squabbling of mankind over the quest for power, the Hubble telescope shows us we really are pretty insignificant in the grand scheme of things in an infinite universe

Think about all of the hatefulness, squabbling, and bickerings that define mankind. In spite of it, we are a single creation called humanity. In the grand scheme of things from the position of a star 600,000 light years from Earth in a distant corner of the cosmos — which doesn’t even begin to remotely quantify the black soup — mankind is pretty insignificant.

And our squabbles really are meaningless. We really are lumped in this thing together, no matter how we try to separate ourselves.

A message for humanity as we head into the Year Two Thousand Seventeen.

One humankind.