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Astronauts

The Infinite Monkey Cage

CHAPTER

The Earth Is Tough as Nails, and Life Is Tenacious

i suddenly could see, with nobody filtering anything, that the earth has been here uninterrupted for four and a half billion years. And i found that reassuring. You know, this little elephantlength life that we're going it's important to us, but in the big scheme of things, it's just a momentary blip. By the way, i apologize to our producer, sash, because all she does every single episode is hope that we ask the first question. That's the first thing that happens. And it never happens. I heard elephants, and i went, we have to deal with the elephant before we get to question one. Jus for to rait out there.

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