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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