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Telescopes and space missions

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Unique, but not exceptional

27 Aug 2015
Taken from the August 2015 issue of Physics World

Tamara Davis reviews The Copernicus Complex: the Quest for Our Cosmic (In)significance by Caleb Scharf

Photo of the Earth as a blue marble in space, taken from the Moon
Life on Earth The specialness of our "Blue Marble" contrasts with our conviction that we are not privileged observers. (Courtesy: NASA)
It is remarkable to think that less than a century ago, humans had no concept of the enormity of the

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Tamara Davis is a cosmologist at the University of Queensland, Australia, e-mail tamarad@physics.uq.edu.au
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