From Bruno to Voyager: Humanity's Place in the Expanding Cosmos
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Humans have shifted from comforting myths about our place in the cosmos to realizing our smallness in a vast universe, a change echoed by Giordano Bruno’s infinite-world vision and by the Voyager mission carrying Jimmy Carter’s golden record and a 1970s mixtape to reach any possible listeners, with future ventures by Elon Musk potentially expanding our history beyond the solar system.