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....~=:^*§            the sick shit about           §*^:=~....
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.~=:^*§###               ^ our world ^              ###§*^:=~.
..~=:^*§##              §^§^§^§^§^§^§               ##§*^:=~..
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....~=:^*§ is that it's pretty young as worlds  go, §*^:=~....
.....~=:^* there  must  have been  countless worlds *^:=~.....
......~=:^ here before ours,  on  this  earth,  and ^:=~......
.......~=:             what about this:             :=~.......
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.........~ if  i  am a cat,  twenty years  of  age, ~.........
.......... i've lived  almost  two  percent of  the ..........
..........           time since zero bce            ..........
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.......... things are  recent.  humanity is recent. ..........
.......... it  was not, geologically speaking, such ..........
.......... a  very  long time  since they  invented ..........
..........                the wheel                 ..........
.........~                    and                   ~.........
........~= i like the  wheel  just  as much as  the =~........
.......~=: next  person  but what about the  earth? :=~.......
......~=:^ the   original  marble.  the  loose  orb ^:=~......
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