i know we need to fix our shit on earth.  this is our home.  our only stand.  we need to make our home habitable for humanity & all the creatures of our varied eco-systems to thrive.  to stay alive.  we need to fix ourselves too.  the insanity of our species.  for we are part of nature not apart from it.  & when i see video of an autonomous vehicle landing another autonomous vehicle on another planet...i think when we put our better selves & minds to a task i think perhaps we might have even the slimmest of chances.  for when we look outward we also look inward.  & do what eliot said that after the journey we arrive home & see it for the first time.  we see our earth, & everything in it, is precious for it is tiny in the cosmos.  we are finite beings on a muddy speck of dirt in an almost incomprehensibly vast universe.  our fragility, our finality, our period ordinariness, makes this earth, the only home we know, the greater thing that needs us to find our footing, our balance, our harmony, as we simultaneously explore the planets & stars, & make a better bed for all living things on earth.  for this i hope.  for as we explore alien terrains & stars we come to know that this planet earth is our only home.