  It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we may yet find at galaxy's edge. But in the process, we have lost the human element; not to mention the high hope of those quaint days when flight would create 'one world. ' Instead of one world, we have 'star wars,' and a future in which dumb dented human toys will drift mindlessly about the cosmos long after our small planet's dead. - Gore Vidal According to general relativity, the presence of any massive object bends the time-space fabric. What does it have anything to do with us? Only this: at a smaller scale, in an infinitely smaller scale like the human scale, each of us is interconnected to the other. More so when we interact. Our interaction with each other 'bends the time-space fabric' of each of our lives. And to you Sam, you may not be massive, your physical presence may border on the infinitesimal and the theory of relativity may yet to be empirically proven, but you do bend someone's time-space fabric halfway across the planet. Happy birthday! 
