So in today's NYT, we learn that we live on a 3rd generation planet, and that a 1st generation planet has been found.
The 1st generation planet presumably has far less "heavy elements" than 3rd generation planets, so we feel saddness for the advanced lifeforms that were perhaps thereby frustrated from developing on those planets.
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Peregrinatio in stabilitate (To go on an
adventure without leaving your home town)I have previously referred to a quote I have on my website about this issue, from the great anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss's book _Tristes Tropiques_:
http://www.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/TristesTropiques.html
\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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