We’re made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

- Carl Sagan

Random Fact

Carl Sagan came up with the idea of crafting two gold-plated disc designed to survive in space a billion years for the spacecrafts Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 in the hopes an alien civilization might find it and play the message.

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