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Prehistory for This World
In march of the year 2002, we were warned: A rock
large enough to devastate an Earth city tumbled past us at a high rate of
speed at approximately the same distance away as is our moon. No one saw
it coming, for it came from to direction of our sun, which blinded the
telescopes that may have been looking toward that way. I have read where
only about 15% of the skies are interesting enough to watch. If you think
we allowed ourselves to be open to terrorists from other countries, their
worst deeds against us would be like playacting compared to what could
sneak in from that other 85% of the heavens.
The earth shakes, then heaves. Five billion
voices scream, or start to before their bodies vaporize. A few survive for
minutes filled with agony. The loss of weight, eerie at first, leads a
loss of breath into whatever awareness remains. Smoke fills what air is
left, so black and dark that daylight disappears into a greenish void.
Heat rises, tornados dip, lightning flashes, water boils away and then, in
a month’s time, this dismal Hell attempts to freeze the life away from
whatever has refused to already be dead.
The temperature drops past 60 below before the
smoke subsides and settles into a new layer of enriched soil to cover the
land. The water thaws and what has not been boiled away can form an ocean
around the edges of This World. Some things have somehow survived the
dismal months, life being their reward for cautiousness and the wisdom to
answer their fear by hiding. A handful of human beings struggle to
extricate themselves from pockets which had buried, but protected them.
Their skin is scarred where it had been seared and broken. This World
begins anew, different but alive after all.
This World, along with its moon, circles its star
at an average speed of about 65-thousand miles per hour. A slower rock, a
solid mass mostly the size of its moon, has blown away much of This
World’s thin crust and slung its molten core into space. The rock will
likely collect most of the iron and
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"To deny a right to the
experience of pleasure is immoral unless that denial can be justified by a
valid presentation of how pain will result from that experience in an
amount that would render the expected pleasure regrettable; or, if it can
be shown that pain will be induced in others innocent of any involvement.
The role of science in moral issues should be to test that, predict that,
and find harmless ways to demonstrate that."
— L. H. Whitling in the
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