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“ he felt the answer- something well in excess of a billion years- and yet the builders of this system had not even yet emerged as a protoplasmic possibility when humans had arisen on earth.” ( Douglas, 346)
The sheer scale of such a timeframe is mind blowing. I can’t help but feel overwhelmed even just reading it, and the book does a good job conveying that feeling