Accept our cosmic insignificance  Last updated 11:30 16/11/2012
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Egypt Detroit: Stalled but not wrecked  OPINION: Doing a bit of
quick galactic arithmetic indicates that we human beings aren't
really that unique or special.  In this interval of blessed
tranquillity between the titanic struggle to choose the next
president of the "world's greatest nation" (the same guy as last
time) and the world-shaking choice of the next leader of the
"Middle Kingdom" (Xi Jinping, but it's still officially secret
for a few more days), a delicious moment of sheer silliness. The
BBC has banned a science programme because it might trigger an
interstellar invasion.  They would not normally ban a programme
made by Brian