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Neil deGrasse Tyson

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“It keeps me humble on the frontier on this perimeter of ignorance. Is way more to discover than anything you've already learned.”
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“If you lead a healthy life, you should get three billion seconds out of it. You get to 93, at least that. So time passes. If you learned something new every day that forces extra context for extra perspective, new perspective on whatever you knew yesterday. You have to stay open to that. And I read old science books because I watch people's confidence that they had in what they thought they knew. It can be embarrassing in some cases. And it's very humbling to look back at people writing about their own world. A book from 1899 the guy on the sun, and it says, We've learned so much about the sun in the last three years, I had to up the edition of the book I wrote three years ago. And I'm saying, you don't know shit about the sun. Okay. In 1899, but he's feeling it. He's feeling that joy. So I...”
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“Maybe you only are who you are on your deathbed because then you would have completed your life. You're work in progress. You're 33, so last year when you were 31, you would have lived your billionth second.”
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“Thank you. Link it below. Highly recommend. It's called Just Visiting This Planet. So I lied before. I can give you some advice. Yeah. This is a 67 year old device At no time Should you Overvalue and Your own thoughts. You should. You should allow yourself to be humbled daily with new ideas that challenge any or everything that you currently think. That's wisdom, I think.”
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“Don't blame me for that. I don't want you to lose your religion because of me The universe is a rich repository of Spiritual fulfillment. If I may.”
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“So, I think I made up for it. Just in how many people, and there are other people who needed help. And so you find out how they can improve it and advise on that so that everybody lifts up. That's how you make a better world.”
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“Well, I've written many letters of reference for people more than I can count. So, I think every time I write a letter of reference, I think about how I could have written that letter back then. That's a regret. I live with that”
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“No. He might have taken up another field. I don't know. But so I regret that. But it would take me four years to even realize that that was a regrettable thing because I didn't know how to, you know, as an educator, you want to encourage people. You see where the weaknesses are and figure out ways to have that person eradicate them, improve upon them rather than just say, this is not working, go home.”
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“And I said, this is not going to work. It was very deflating. Considering that at the time I'm majoring in physics at Harvard, he's coming from some high school somewhere. And I'm a Harvard student telling him that, you know, he ain't shit. And I should not have done that.”
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“I was a In college. Major in physics, and I think I was a junior. There were students that came in from other schools for a summer program. High school seniors, I think they were. There might have been freshmen in their college, but I think they were high school students. And not a mentor, but I would guide them in these research projects. Then at the end, we had to write an evaluation of them. As one student, I wrote an evaluation that was Was accurate, but Said Pretends he knows things that he doesn't and he's, you know, he's faking this. And I didn't yet know. How to speak encouragingly about someone. Separate from just speaking factually about someone. So, is that an art? Is it a science to do that? I don't know, but I know I didn't have it at the time. I just simply described what I saw.”
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“Yeah, I think regrets are things that you only realize when it's too late. Otherwise, you would have preempted it and not have to regret it. So I don't know that I'm any better than anyone else at it. Because if you're good at it, you'll never be in a position to have to do something that you would regret. The fact is, you went past something that you did and said, damn, I shouldn't have done. I got to regret that. So to be good at knowing in advance that you're going to regret something, that's almost an impossible scenario. If I'm good at seeing it, I would never have to regret anything because I would have preempted it. So, for all of us, the fact that we have regrets is we move past something that we did. I was like, damn, I regret that after the fact.”
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“Let me keep going. Was it 1876? Philadelphia Expo. Alexander Graham Bell showcases his new contraption The Telephone. And people say, wow, this is kind of cool. You should read what people wrote about it. This is a great invention. I can imagine there might be one in every city in the future. This book that one, yeah. There's a whole chapter called Science and Technology. I chron People think about the technology of their day and how they always get it wrong when they predict the future. Because foundational science comes in at the bottom and you don't see that coming. And it gurgles its way up, clever engineers apply it. You have an iPad.”
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“I've tried to illuminate the public about it. It's easy to say that basic science doesn't matter or can't matter or will never matter. Because we don't know yet Right now is the centennial decade. So let's go back to the 1920s where quantum physics was developed. If you were around back then, what would you say? Why are you studying atoms? I can't even see atoms. Don't waste your time. You're a brilliant person. Go work on this other problem that we have in society and Take decades But the information technology revolution Has as its core. The creation, storage, and retrieval of digital information that can only happen. The exploitation of the quantum So this decade of science, physics that was discovered, by the nineteen fifties it was like whoa, this is some important physics here. No one would have known that at the time.”
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“I want to teach them because they're my fellow citizens. And that's how I feel. So my worry is that they're decisions made that are not in the best interest of the people who voted for those decisions, the longer-term implications could be devastating. If you cut basic science, basic science feeds engineering, engineering feeds economies. And so if you don't think basic science matters because you don't either understand the title of the research or the scientist didn't communicate it interestingly enough, whatever. And you say, this is a waste of money, take it all out. Let's just do the engineering. You'll be ossified in place.”
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“No, that's the blame game is, I don't feel that way. Parents, when they showed us the images, Of the dogs and the water hoses on the protesters in the South American South. They were never bitter. They said, these people don't know any better. They don't know any differently. We have to talk to them and learn. Teach them Very different from saying holding up your fist, saying, I'm going to fight them because they're my enemy.”
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“Say, why do you think this? And if you consider this, that's my duty as an educator, not to hit anybody on the head who's in Washington.”
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“I was once in the Rayburn office building, Washington, DC in the science committee's room, beautifully decorated with science art and sculptures and things. One of the members of the science committee back then was a young earth creationist. Young Earth creationists, universe created in six days, Earth created in six thousand years, at most ten thousand years. And I knew he was going to be there. And I thought to myself, do I grab him by the lapels and say, what are you thinking on the science committee? And then I thought, no, no. If he thinks that, presumably, so does his electorate. They voted him in. And this electorate of fellow citizens as am I in this country. So I can't indict him. Let me go have a conversation with the folks who voted for him.”
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“Well, you know, it's a free country, and we vote in our leaders. And right now there's a whole set of people in charge that are doing different things from what had happened in previous years, previous leaderships, even previous leaders of that same political party. What's going on is very different from anything that I think people would have predicted. A lot of people like. Complaining about leadership, but we live in a country where we choose our leaders. So we're going to complain about the leadership. You should be complaining about the people, about the electorate. I'm an educator. I've never I complained about politicians. They represent people.”
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“Oh, the secret? I went to chef school for six years. That's the secret. You're thinking this is one sentence I could tell you and then that'll make everything better No. Stay alert, learn new stuff every day. Learn from your mistakes because those lessons are greater than someone just telling you to not do it. Then you have no such life experience to build into the wisdom that you want to acquire in the years to come.”
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“Have no motivation. They have no ambition. They have no vision statement because everything got handed to them. And what does the adult say to the kids? Where did I go wrong? I gave you everything I didn't have. That's where they went wrong because they gave the kids everything he didn't have. And what made that person was what they struggled, the decisions they had to make, the decisions they got right, the decisions they got wrong, who they met, how they treated people. This is life experience. And it doesn't come on a bumper sticker. It doesn't come on a what's the secret. Like going to someone's home, and one of the hosts is actually a train chef, right? And maybe worked in a restaurant. And they prefer this exquisite meal. And you said, This is delicious. What's your secret?”
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“They first sweep the street in front of a store at front. And then they're in the store and they learn the trade. And then the owner dies and they take over the trade. And they're working hard and they're scrapping and then they buy the adjacent store and they build the thing. And then he moves and he lives in a big house. And he has kids. Okay? And he says to himself, When I was your age, I had to scrounge for food and I had to sweep things. And I want to make sure my kids don't have to do that. To make sure they don't have to do that. Okay, so you provide Things for them So, they don't have to do this. And now they grow up, and they're adults. They're deadbeat”
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“It's the most it's the most kind of wisdom you can have, provided you learn from a mistake. If you're just an idiot and you just keep making the mistake, my advice for you is don't make the same mistake twice. But that's, you don't need me for that. So you'll make a decision about this podcast or some business decision. And no, it didn't turn out right. Here's a better example of this. You ready? This is a very American kind of story I'm about to tell. Immigrant comes over back when that was a thing you could do. It comes to the United States. And they work hard. Very hard working.”
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“I have no such advice, and I'll tell you why. If you're alert and you're smart, alert meaning you notice things and you're smart and you learn. Living life itself So a version of what you just asked is given what you know today, what would you tell yourself if you met yourself when you were 15, 20, 25, 30, whatever? And I said, I wouldn't tell him anything. Because if I gave a bit of wisdom, You're about to do that, but don't do that. Okay? No better lesson than doing something and learning that you shouldn't do it That's the best lesson. Don't live life because there's a list of things that other people said don't do. You're going to explore your life. That's what you're going to do. Some things are great and some things you don't want to do again, some things are bad. That's where the wisdom comes from. You earn it.”
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“God is an ever-receiving pocket of scientific ignorance, Neil deGrasse Tyson. That is not what I said. Half of what I said. And that's only true if to you God is where science has yet to tread. But to pull that out and make that the truth? No, I would never make such a statement. Ever.”
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“Then God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance. That references what philosophers have called God of the Gaps. It goes way back, thousands of years. We don't understand it. There's a God. The storm is Poseidon, okay? Lightning bolt struck. It's Zeus. That's God of the Gaps. God of the Gaps is a time-honored exercise in human civilization. And all I'm saying is. That statement. Objectively true because it's an if statement. If to you God is where science has yet to tread, then as science continues to tread, you're a pocket, a shrinking pocket of scientific knowledge. That's your God. It's not an opinion. There's a statement of an if statement, the consequences of an if statement. I've had people take the second half and put it on a t-shirt.”
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“But they also believe your religion is preposterous. And people don't accept that. It doesn't land well. So I don't have any problems with people being religious. I don't have any issues with that. I don't try to impose my, other people try to do it. I've seen them do this. I have a quote where I'm misquoted just because they want me on their side. Okay, you ready? It's a simple quote. If every time I tell you science doesn't understand it, and you say, well, God must be that, God made the universe because God made life because we don't know how to make life yet. If that is your definition and understanding of God. Then as science progresses, it will solve these questions. Pushing the god back outward. Places that have yet to be discovered. And so the quote is, if to you God is where science has yet to tread.”
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“Every religion but their own. Okay. How can a mountain have moved to Muhammad? That can't be, okay? Oh, but yes, the creator of the universe impregnated a woman in the Middle East two thousand years ago. That's more believable than anything in the Quran for this person. Okay. And then the Jews are saying, Jesus is the Son of God. Are you crazy? Where'd you get that from? He's a good Jew, nice prophet, but Son of God, you're going too far. So everybody's saying what's not true. So the atheist for every other, they just don't believe any other religion. Whereas an actual atheist just has one more religion to that category. Your religion The atheist agrees with you that all the other religions are preposterous in their claims.”
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“I'm a pretty happy guy. I don't know. I see people, I've seen very happy people. In celebrating their version of God. But then there are other people who are really happy in their version of God. And here's the problem. Deeply religious people. Typically, find other religions which are Even religious people will declare for themselves and others in that religion that all the other religions are false. False. And if not false, just make preposterous claims. It is so obvious to them how false all the other religions are. Now you go to this religion. It is obvious how preposterous the rest of the religions are. You go around religion to religion. So, what's really going on here is devout people in so many of these religions are atheists to every religion but their own.”
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“Well, again, so it could be because they believe there's a God that tells them who to sleep with and where to eat and how to pray, or because they have a regular dose of community. I don't know that those are completely separable variables. There are people who they love and care about that they see every week, which is not happening with so many people today.”
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“Happens after death? Well, it looks like you rot in the ground, but otherwise, and that's what physics, it's got to be something your soul, I said, there's got to be heaven? Okay, that's their answer. I've got their answer. And if that's your answer at every turn, you're not as good an investigator of the unknown because you just invented the answer to the unknown. What is dark matter, dark matter? I don't know. We got top people working on it. Is that the spirit of God? Then that person won't walk into a lab to continue to study what dark matter and dark energy is. I don't mind if you want to say it's God, but don't let that stop your curiosity. But if you say it's God and then you're done, then you're not very useful in the lab.”
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“I think they want the world to still have mysteries because mysteries are beautiful things. The world still has mysteries. They're just different mysteries from whatever there used to be. And so follow the mysteries where they take you. And there's another branch of all of us who must have answers to every question. Because they're not learning to love the questions, they only want to love the answer. So they say, what was around before the Big Bang? I said, I don't know. We got top people. Something had to be around. I said, I don't know. Must have been God. So there's their answer and then they're happy.”
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“Well, I once had someone take a class of mine. After Hayden Planetarium that I taught on astrophysics, and at the end, like the second to last class, she came to say, oh, thank you for the class. I enjoy. I'm enjoying the class, but I want you to know I'm an astrologer and I'm taking the class so I can cast horoscopes better. So I said, it's really working for you? She said, yeah, yeah, yeah. She said, for example, what's your horoscope sign? And I said, Shouldn't you be able to figure that out? If all this works, and you cast horoscopes, you ought to tell me what my sign is. Okay, okay. She said, are you Gemini? I said, no. Cancer. I said, no. It must be Leo. I said no. Eight horoscopes later. She gets the correct answer and says, I knew it. So I'm simply saying that Her ninth guess out of twelve was correct, and she declares I knew it.”
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“The tide comes in and I move my beach chair back because the tide came in. Yeah, there are things that influence my behavior. Yes. But it's not much more than that. Earth is tipped on its axis, so we have seasons. I buy coats and wear them in the winter. That influences my behavior.”
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“Yeah, we live in a free country. So I don't, I'm not going to try to stop them. What would be sad is if that number got to 100% and then you wouldn't be generating scientists or engineers or people who the objective truths of the world matter. And then the civilization just goes back to the cave where everything that happened in the natural world was mysterious created by forces beyond our knowledge and understanding. This is the title of one of Carl Sagan's books, The Demon Haunted World. Science as a candle in the dark that was the subtitle of that book. So if you want to think you're not in control of your fate because the sun, moon, and planets are. Like I said, it's a free country”
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“Out of it, it is in its lowest energy state. These are people who have never had chemistry. And as an educator, I don't want to make fun of this, but when people think they know something and are audacious about it when in fact they don't, that makes it much harder for an educator to break through.”
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“So, if someone says, I have these crystals, you rub them together, it'll heal you. My kids would say, What are the crystals made of? And what tests have you made for this? And could the healing have been explained in another way? And in what way are the, and they start asking these questions, and then the person will probably just walk away because they would not have the answers to all of them. And then, you know, remember I said of an argument lasts more than five minutes, then both sides are wrong. There's nothing There's no place for that to go to the truly curious person. There's another interesting fact. Crystals represent the lowest energy state of the atomic or molecular configuration that is comprised of. The lowest energy state. So people say, I have crystal energy. No, you don't. You have the lowest energy state of that silicon dioxide that you're calling quartz. There is no, there's no energy you're going to take.”
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“And we'd be at a dinner party and they're in middle school, right? And someone says, oh, I had a bad day because Mercury was in retrograde. And my son would say, what actually happened to you today? Has that happened on days when it was, they know how to ask questions, okay? By the way, if you just reject what someone says outright, that's as intellectually lazy as it is to accept what they say outright. What's harder, but I think more fun, is lining up a series of questions to probe the statement, to explore what is going on in the thoughts and in the claims of the person with whom you're conversing.”
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“Raising kids? It's among the more meaningful things that I would say they did a lot of their own raising because they're highly independent. And so there's a limit to how much I should take credit for who and what they have become. There are a lot of what they did themselves. But my wife, who's a science scientist, she's a mathematical physicist, we made sure that both our kids were scientifically literate at an early age. By age 13, certified. So at that point, I said, I don't care what grade you get from now on. I don't care. I know no one will exploit you for your lack of curiosity and knowledge about the objective universe.”
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“I think meaning is a very personal thing to people. So, why should you jump in the middle of their attempt to establish meaning in their life? We're all very different people Meaning ought to be different. If meaning was the same for everyone, you just publish it, everyone reads it, and then we all have meaning. No, you got to. Make it yourself. Some people want to search for it, fine. I don't have a problem with that. I'm not searching for meaning. I'm creating meaning in my life because I can control that. Not that it's important to control everything. I like magic as an adult because it reminds me I can still be fooled. Okay, that's, so I don't need to know everything. I just need to maintain curiosity.”
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“No. You need, you don't know if it's invalid. I know the moon is not made out of cheese today. Know that because we've been there, we brought back moonrocks. So today that question is invalid. But if you never imagine ever going to the moon and you don't know anything about physics or rocks and you look up and it looks like a hunk of cheese you're eating, it's a completely legit question.”
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“Not all questions can be answered given the state of knowledge. Some questions are illegitimate questions. Not all questions are legit questions. For example, at what temperature does the number seven melt? What kind of cheese is the moon made out of? These are just because the nouns and verbs are lined up and there's a question mark doesn't mean the way when you're facing the unknown, you don't know if your question later on would look that ridiculous. Separates the great scientists from the average scientist is that they queued into what questions to ask.”
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“So too does the perimeter of our ignorance and so you say what one question? No, there'll be a bunch of questions. The area grows some more. I'm standing in a new place. Now there's a question I didn't even think could be asked before. And that's the question that matters there and then. But then there's another question later on as this frontier continues to advance. So I don't think about the one question or the two questions that matter. I think about questions yet to be dreamt of. We don't even see because we haven't taken the frontier to that vista yet. And so, yeah, that's unknowable, but I kind of like that. Is the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke? One of the poems I don't remember all the lines with the one that matters to me. Most is Learn to Love the Questions themselves.”
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“I don't live life that way It's a sensible question that you're asking me. I don't want to diminish the sensibility of it, but I want to say that that's not how I view the world. The world is not, there's the one question I need answered. The world is... What do I need to learn? So that I'm standing in a place I can yet imagine asking a question I have yet to think of. In other words, as the area of our knowledge grows?”
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“I'm not the guy you think I am. I will watch it and silently, yes, I'll gather a list of, but I'm silent about it. And if you're interested, I will tell you later.”
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“They feed the humans food. Well, why are you feeding food to humans and then using the energy from the humans for the machine? Bypass the middleman and just feed the machine. Something called the second law of first or second law of thermodynamics, anytime energy changes from one form to another? Not 100% efficient. You drive a car. If you drive a combustion engine car, you drive it 50 miles, get out. The engine's hot. Did the heat come from? Wasted energy converting chemical energy of the gasoline to kinetic energy of your car. It is never 100% perfect. So they are losing energy with this middleman, and they should just feed themselves whatever the food they're feeding the humans. If they're smart, they would not have humans at all. But then there's no movie. So that's my point. Road him a hall pass. You're okay with that.”
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“Oh, it's not an error, it's just. It's bad physics in it. Okay, so if you remember, the AI. Computer that's running everything needs an energy source. And so they're growing humans in these pods, knowing that each human radiates at about eighty watts. They didn't give that number, but it's a true fact. 80 watts, like an 80-watt bulb, that's how much energy you are consuming and using. It's an energy rate. So one of the writers must have known that and said, that's kind of cool. Let's use humans as an energy source for the machines. All right. So there are these pods of humans. And they grow the humans from childhood to adulthood. And they put in their head a world that they're living in, which is just in their head. And they think it's real. But it's not. That's the matrix. Okay. But wait a minute. How do the humans get their energy?”
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“Space mov sci fi is the matrix. I love everything about it. The story is tight. One physics error in it, but without it, they don't have a movie, so you got to give it a whole pass, which I feel. I have the power to do”
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“Well, no, they're probably smarter than us. That's like worms saying, oh, we found some humans. What should we do with them? Should we corral them? No. If aliens came here, there clearly are more advanced than we are because we haven't left low Earth orbit in 53 years. So if they cross the galaxy to visit us, We're going to take a shoot a gun at him. Laugh at us.”
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“That's a good point. And plus, what do we need real aliens for when we have Hollywood? The funny part to me is we have no knowledge of Aliens want to harm us. But we do have knowledge that humans want to harm humans. Any encounter between an advanced civilization and when there was less advanced in the history of exploration has never boded well for the less advanced civilization. So for me, we are describing aliens as Not as we think they would be, but as we know we are Mirror.”
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“Yes, completely. You want to now tell me it has visited you. With fuzzy lights in the sky, And no one is brought forth an alien. I need better evidence because you're making an extraordinary claim.”
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