"Still, Earth dates to one or two hundred million years before that and the solar system was a crowded place. I've read that life - which seems to have begun almost immediately after the planet became suitable for it - may have been wiped out one or more times by huge collisions. We know about that last one because it gave us our moon. But, before that? We only know that there was a lot of bumping and grinding going on."
Bumpin' and grindin', eh? Wow ... I've always known that ribit is an old fart, BUT ... even I wasn't aware that his lap dance sessions down at Toad Suck's Boobie Bungalow had anything to do with the formation of the moon!
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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