“When I got home after school (…) I made myself a raspberry milk shake (…) and then went through to the living room to watch one of my Blue Planet videos about life in the deepest parts of the ocean.
The video was about the sea creatures who live around sulfur chimneys, which are underwater volcanoes where gases are ejected from the earth´s crust into the water. Scientists never expected there to be any living organisms there because it was so hot and so poisonous, but there are whole ecosystems there.
I like this bit because it shows you that there is always something new that science can discover, and all the facts that you take for granted can be completely wrong.
(…) when you look at the sky you know you are looking at stars which are hundreds and thousands of ligh-years away from you. And some of the stars don’t even exist anymore because their light has taken so long to get to us that they are already dead, or they have exploded and collapsed into red dwarfs. And that makes you seem very small, and if you have difficult things in your life it is nice to think that they are what is called negligible, which means that they are so small you don’t have to take them into account when you are calculating something."
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