“..we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos… We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors… We are searching for an ideal image of our own world: we go in quest of a planet, of a civilization superior to our own but developed on the basis of a prototype of our primeval past.” 从一开始Snow就已道破了人类的自大和局限。
The only god I’d be inclined to believe in, one whose suffering wasn’t redemption, didn’t save anyone, didn’t serve any purpose, it just was.