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“If this tree had just one leaf, we’d burn. Like those glasses of his … I bet they’ve got some juicy clues hidden in the gears. Whatever happens, we’re alive, we’re breathing, we’re having conscious thoughts. At the end of the disc’s seventy-second hour in orbit, a small lead weight, 100 kilograms, was fired toward th