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Astrophysics
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The history and features of the solar system's asteroid-comet belts, along with the gravitational influences of the Moon's mass and early orbital proximity, ensured that Earth would receive sufficient impact events, especially before animals appeared, to salt Earth's crust with rich ore deposits. These ores played a crucial role in the early launch of metallurgy and, more recently, in the development of global, high-technology civilization. On the other hand, major impact events during the human
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― Designed to the Core
― Designed to the Core
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Science of Life, Class in Session
(Sonnet 2087-2088)
Nature doesn't kill anybody,
nor does it save anybody -
life and death are human constructs,
just like beauty and the grotesque -
nature is above all that,
not in an almighty, all-knowing
sort of way, but more of
an indifferent sort of way -
because in nature, nothing's born,
nothing dies, they just change shape,
and some of those shapes are sentient,
some intelligent, some neither -
and each identity gets restructured
as they go through t
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― Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
― Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
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