If

the Earth were

only a few feet in diameter,

floating a few feet above a field

somewhere, people would come from

everywhere to marvel at it. People would walk

around it marvelling at its big pools of water, its

little pools, and the water flowing between the pools.

People would marvel at the bumps on it, and the holes

in it, and they would marvel at the very thin layer of gas

surrounding it and the water suspended in the gas. The

people would marvel at all the creatures walking around

the surface of the ball and at the creatures in ...

 

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