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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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