• Donkter@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    To that point, I think it’s also unnerving how natural it is. This isn’t some alien world. I could go to the Mojave and walk around for 5 minutes to find a photo identical to this. Earth is indistinguishable to one of these rocks hurtling through space, there’s just something growing on it very briefly.

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      25 days ago

      Yes, but I still think there is something more haunting about a landscape that you know hasn’t been touched by anything since maybe before Earth existed, every dust-grain on that surface has sat there for millions and millions of years without being disturbed by so much as starlight.