The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the sur…

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The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be. ✨ Douglas Adams (2005). The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time, p.131, Del Rey
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