Hello world. How are you? Feeling a little blue? You are 2/3rds ocean, you know. That might have something to do with it. That, and the tendency of your passengers to reliably find much to worry about through the ages.

Don’t get me wrong! I’m not diminishing the challenges you and your passengers are facing right now. Many of those challenges appear to be existential. But maybe a little perspective would help. After all, over the course of your 4.5 billion year journey, you’ve probably faced one or two problems that looked existential-ly.

Yeah. That’s got to be true.

Let’s see what perspective we can dig up…