ASTRUM: Terra (with narration)
Description written, and narrated by Lourna Mydes Quinto
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There is a saying shared across the universe. Planet 3627-7 is a special world. It is a liquid world that fills up three-fourths of its mass with water, yet sustains billions of species of creatures. Its residents live on the tallest peaks of the coldest mountains, to the hottest plains of its barren deserts, and into the depths of its oceans. It is a world filled with an array of color unlike any other planet in its solar system. The firmament protects it from the radiation of the sun. Frozen water fall from the sky like fine white dust for a quarter of a cycle. It is filled with these things called trees that release gases that sustain life in its atmosphere, and that it is a world filled with creatures as tall as the trees and as small as the pebbles on the ground.
It is said that the world’s rulers, creatures called humans, are the oddest of all. They live with plants and beasts that can kill them, but they have dominion above them all. They breathe in gases that burn them slowly inside at the rate of about 80 cycles around the sun. They have created settlements where temperatures dip to as low as -90 degrees and as high as 50 degrees and still reproduce. They capture the wind in the sails of their contraptions and journey across the waters. They then take the wind as their own and fly above the sky, defying their planet’s own gravity. The sun’s solar winds hit its atmosphere but instead of fearing it, they stare in awe at the lights they have named Aurora Borealis. As daylight in the night, these northern lights weaved amongst the silver clouds in a hypnotic dance, distorting in an array of green and purple with tongues of reds and oranges flickering in between.
But they were not satisfied with the sky. These humans decided to venture out of their world and into outer space, touching upon their moon and sending their metal creature into the depths of the universe, seeking others like them – hoping to find a connection – hopelessly lost. But the universe kept silent.
But the universe speaks of them. They speak of the terrible and marvelous things of the complex planet. The planet these humans call Earth.
“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives........."
Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space