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Standing under a pre-dawn sky at a latitude some 25.7 degrees north, moon bright and waning. Venus is a vividly bright pinpoint a bit low and easterly, the sun's light ricocheting from it to my retinae, it's humbling. Did Lucy and her contemporaries have self-awareness? Four and a half billion years it took for the pebble we call terra-firma to form and cool into the Earth we now know and call home. Traces of hominids go back a couple million so far. An eye-blink of time. The low rumbling sound of jet engines, powerful machines, can be heard from the east, Ft. Lauderdale airport within a short distance. We fly! Humans have set foot on that now waning moon! We're an organism going from beating lunch over the head or pulling it from a plant, to taking air travel for granted. All in the time that to the Universe, it needs be considered miniscule.
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