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When I was 13, I laid on a hammock in Sicily, gazing at the night sky. I saw the full moon, and realized that it was the very same moon I grew up under halfway across the world.

Besides the sun, the moon is the only thing that ties the entire world together. Every single person and living thing in history has looked up and feasted their eyes on the bright, round object in the black sky. When dinosaurs roamed the earth, the moon was there. When William Shakespeare wrote his masterpieces, the moon was there. When Native Americans were forced to give up their land to Europeans, the moon was there. When John F. Kennedy was shot, the moon was there. And so on.

Things come and go, but the moon will always be in our night sky. Our great, great, great, great grandchildren will look up and see the very same moon we are looking at right now, and so will their great, great, great, great grandchildren.

If there had to be an ultimate witness of the entire life span of Earth, from dinosaurs to the flying cars and robots of the future, it'd be the moon.