A love that lasts 100 million years

Skeptics have a reputation for being a little hard around the edges, mainly because people confuse the word "skeptic" with "cynic".  

I am in love with the podcast from WYNC, "Radio Lab", which is brilliantly done by Jad Abulmrad and Robert Krulwich.  One of the short pieces they have used for two episodes is a short interview with Ann Druyan, a writer in her own right, political activist, and poet, but best known as the widow of Carl Sagan.  

I remember being deeply touched by the story of how Druyan and Carl Sagan had worked together for three years, on the Voyager Golden Record, and then later on the television series Cosmos, and finally fell in love.  As she told it, they had a conversation by phone where they agreed that they loved each other and should get married, and they hadn't even kissed yet.   

The Golden Record has compressed EEG data from Ann's brain, and she was thinking while they were recording her brain "I am in love... I am so in love!", and somewhere, at 35,000 miles per hour average, that recording is out in deep space.  

And will be for 100 million years (estimated).  Until, at some point, perhaps an alien society retrieves the spacecraft and decodes the messages.  Carl Sagan died in December, 1996, and who knows when, at some point in the hopefully far future Ann Druyan dies, but those brain waves, of a young woman in love, will be far out in space when all of us no longer are on the Earth.

I find that touching.