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Andy Rivkin @asrivkin.bsky.social

I'd considered something along these lines, but I'm not sure it would actually _ruin_ that book.

aug 28, 2025, 1:19 am • 4 0

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Chris Schaller @hicommander.bsky.social

Well I was thinking that as well. Like Tom Clancy's Chemical Evolution of the Earth? I'd read that.

aug 28, 2025, 2:13 am • 3 0 • view
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Chris Schaller @hicommander.bsky.social

(Maybe that was the course, not the textbook, but you know what I mean.)

aug 28, 2025, 2:14 am • 3 0 • view
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Chris Schaller @hicommander.bsky.social

(Also I was fortunate enough to be able to relate the strontium ptys/geos sorting tale yesterday.)

aug 28, 2025, 2:14 am • 3 0 • view
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Andy Rivkin @asrivkin.bsky.social

Is that the story I think of as the "the fact the universe won't last that long isn't the problem" story?

aug 28, 2025, 2:19 am • 3 0 • view
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Chris Schaller @hicommander.bsky.social

The very same!

aug 28, 2025, 2:31 am • 3 0 • view