OUR HOME IN SPACE

"Relative to Earth, the Sun is a gigantic thermal power plant; relative to the Milky Way it is a tiny luminous point of medium brightness that would be hard to find in the outer arms of the spiral.  And this point of light is circled by a blue speck, a million times smaller, on which a very strange species roams of late, regarding itself as very big and important."

- Gerard Staghun, US Physicist