When I see pics of earth from space at night, it hits me how much of our planet is uninhabited. You see the lights of population centers clustered along coasts, rivers, and other habitable zones, broken up by vast swathes of darkness.
Our hearth fires are bigger, but we haven't changed that much. Just a race of apes, clustered around massive fires made of light, our backs to the vast darkness that forms 99.9% of the rest of the night.




















