(AP/NASA Photograph) The picture shows part of Saturn, taken from the Cassini spacecraft, and, whether you want to believe or not, the only place known to man which has life on it; for better or worse, but endangered. Can you spot the Earth in the picture? It is the tiny prick of light on the lower rim of Saturn.

On that dot lie our hopes, our lives and deaths, joys and sorrows, vanities and beliefs; as well as plants and animals, with life in them, but not in their own control; and lifeless, for depredation, most of the elements that mankind knows about, in the form of rocks, rivers, and towards its core, minerals and fossils. In short, in that dot is everything that we know but cannot keep peace with. This photoraph was taken with the help of a telescope. Saturn can be seen from Earth with the naked eye. From Saturn, the Earth cannot be seen unaided. (...to be concluded)