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It's so delicate, too. Drop the squishy pink thing and its ancillary support-meat on a random part of Earth and most likely it drowns in an ocean, freezes on a mountainside, dries out in a desert, or starves in a wasteland.

That's leaving aside the other 99.99999999% of the universe where it chokes on vacuum or is blasted by radiation.

And even in a perfect habitat with an ideal genotype and phenotype, its functional lifetime is a mere century bookended by billions of years of nonexistence.

So yeah.

I try not to think about all that.




>the other 99.99999999% of the universe

You are off by so many orders of magnitude.




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