Which is the inconvenient truth — global warming or our cosmic destiny? Early in the third millennium, Al Gore's film, An Inconvenient Truth, raised awareness of global warming via space age utopianism that mapped the fate of civilization upon the starry skies. From Plato and Ptolemy, Kant and Newton, to Kubrick and Serling, there has been profound human desire to situate human destiny amidst the starry skies. But just what is our cosmic fate — spaceship earth or planet of apes, space odyssey or cyberspace, no exit or twilight zone — in a universe of the Big Bang, with the starry skies moving away?
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