Our initial attempts at answering those big questions about the universe comprise nothing
more than elaborate mythologies. Campfire
stories of creation, and other fiction.
We saw in the night sky a drama unfolding,
much like the one that takes place each day on
earth, and we projected images of earthly
figures onto the stars.
While much of this activity was nothing but the
hubris of man on the grandest scale, it did mark
what was probably the first large scale
gathering of