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Ten Thousand Years

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The Raycats Keep Us Safe

The plan that sandy elabs decided to move forward with does not involve ray cats, sadly. It doesn't even involve the skull and cross bones uhe conceptual design include a big berm 30 feet high earthen construction around the slit print of the repository. Once this raycat folklore becomes embedded into our culture, the knowledge it contains can evolve with us, even as our language shifts Ten thousand years from now. These songs may sound incomprehensible to us, but as long as they communicate this idea that it's not safe to be ethe cats change colors, we will have done our job. May the ray cats keep us safe.

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