\u201cThe fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.\u201d \u2013\u00a0Douglas Adams<\/a>,\u00a0The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cThe fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.\u201d \u2013\u00a0Douglas Adams,\u00a0The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2493,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational","category-life"],"yoast_head":"\n
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