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#&$†;~,,,, †                LCROSS                ; ,,,,~;†$&#
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##&$†;~,,,   I. SENT ON A ROCKET INTO EARTH ORBIT   ,,,~;†$&##
#&$†;~,,,,  II. FORCED TO LAND ON FOREIGN PLANET    ,,,,~;†$&#
&$†;~,,,,, III. SEARCHED FOR TRACES OF OTHER LIFE   ,,,,,~;†$&
$†;~,,,,,,      LIKE OURS, FEELS ABANDONED          ,,,,,,~;†$
&$†;~,,,,,  IV. CLUNKY BUILD, RUGGED, PROBLEMS      ,,,,,~;†$&
#&$†;~,,,,      WITH DUST ON SOLAR PANELS           ,,,,~;†$&#
##&$†;~,,,   V. PIONEER EXPERIMENT, NOT ENOUGH      ,,,~;†$&##
###&$†;~,,      BELIEF IN ITS SUCCESS FOR PRECIOUS  ,,~;†$&###
##&$†;~,,,      PRECIOUS MATERIALS TO BE ALOTTED    ,,,~;†$&##
#&$†;~,,,,  VI. FINDS WATER. FINDS FUCKING WATER    ,,,,~;†$&#
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$†;~,,,,,, ††;†;;††;†;;††;†;;††;†;;††;†;;††;†;;††;† ,,,,,,~;†$
&$†;~,,,,,                                          ,,,,,~;†$&
#&$†;~,,,, ON EARTH AT THIS  TIME THE SOIL HAS BEEN ,,,,~;†$&#
##&$†;~,,, CONTAMINATED  BY  PREVIOUS   GENERATIONS ,,,~;†$&##
###&$†;~,, ATTEMPTS   AT   LARGE-SCALE   INDUSTRIAL ,,~;†$&###
##&$†;~,,, FARMING.    BESPOKE    CHEMICALS     ARE ,,,~;†$&##
#&$†;~,,,, MANUFACTURED   AND   ADDED   TO  "CLEAN" ,,,,~;†$&#
&$†;~,,,,, (DEAD)   SOIL    BEFORE   EACH    YIELD. ,,,,,~;†$&
$†;~,,,,,,                                          ,,,,,,~;†$
&$†;~,,,,, THESE  CHEMS  ARE  MADE  TO  CREATE  THE ,,,,,~;†$&
#&$†;~,,,, CORRECT ENVIRONMENTS  FOR  THE PLANTS TO ,,,,~;†$&#
##&$†;~,,, GROW,   CORRECTING   THE  AFTERBURN   OF ,,,~;†$&##
###&$†;~,, METABOLITES  FROM   THE   CHEMS  OF  THE ,,~;†$&###
##&$†;~,,, PREVIOUS YIELD.                          ,,,~;†$&##
#&$†;~,,,,                                          ,,,,~;†$&#
&$†;~,,,,, IT IS NOT  UNCOMMON  FOR EACH  ITERATION ,,,,,~;†$&
$†;~,,,,,, TO  LEAVE A BASELINE  DIFFERENT  TO  THE ,,,,,,~;†$
&$†;~,,,,, LAST. NEW CORRECTING  CHEMS  NEED TO  BE ,,,,,~;†$&
#&$†;~,,,, CREATED THEN  FOR EACH TIME  THE SOIL IS ,,,,~;†$&#
##&$†;~,,, TO BE USED.                              ,,,~;†$&##
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##&$†;~,,, LARGER-SCALE FORMS.                      ,,,~;†$&##
#&$†;~,,,,              FARMS.                      ,,,,~;†$&#
&$†;~,,,,,              THEY WOULD EMPLOY THEIR OWN ,,,,,~;†$&
$†;~,,,,,,              CHEMISTS (WIZARD-LIKE       ,,,,,,~;†$
&$†;~,,,,,                        PROFESSION)       ,,,,,~;†$&
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