I am on the third rock from the sun. A sun, traveling 720,000 kilometers per hour orbiting the galactic center of the Milky Way every 230 million years, or once a cosmic year. I am a mite on the back of a flea, on the back of a dog.  A dog chasing a car through a neighborhood of 10 thousand billion cars, biting at the front tire.

My id is moving at incredible speeds with senses extended through technology to guide me on my way around this great circle. 

(i) am at a point on that circle that my species, the royal we, the majestic plural have never been to before.  Nothing is certain.

The rock we are on has an abundance of materials and resources. More than enough to meet our requirements and as naked apes we have covered the rock adapting the environment to meet our needs. There are few if any places we have not stuck our noses into and we routinely self-terminate pursuing activities like jumping off mountain tops wearing batman suits.

Running around the galactic center can be quite exhilarating but evidence from 12,000 years ago not only clearly shows the risks of living near the ocean but also brings into focus all the evidence that repeatedly shows that the surface of a planet is in fact quite a dangerous place to live.

The meteorite, called ALH84001, was found in 1984 in Allan Hills ice field, Antarctica, by the annual expedition of the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Meteorite Program. It was preserved for study in JSC’s Meteorite Processing Laboratory and its possible Martian origin was not recognized until 1993” – NASA

Imagine the time it took, the thousands of man-years that went into finding that rock in the middle of Antarctica and getting it back to a laboratory able to distinguish said rock from one from your very own garden. Consider the decades of research; the different streams of investigation; the professional journals; consider the debates, the tenure.

“A tremendous impact drove fragments from Mars into space”, he cried
as he drove his fist into the nose of his lesser.

“The orbit of the earth intersected a cloud of debris which fell to earth and buried themselves in the ice!” she screamed as she buried her knee in his manhood.

Later they mated!

Consider the odds that a naked ape would even look for a rock in an ocean of ice in the first place. Nevertheless, eons after falling to earth, the richest naked ape on the planet, Elon of Musk, finds said rock and starting from first principles; figures out where it came from and then vows to return it and swear out a complaint.

Do you think that that’s crazy?

In 1650 after studying ancient Egyptian and Hebrew texts the archbishop of Armagh in Northern Ireland, James Ussher, began counting all the “begats” in the Old Testament and calculated the date that god created the world; and everything on it.

The world, James concluded was created 4004 years before the birth of Christ on October 23, around 4:30 pm. All that history and dinosaur bones came with the history department at Ikea. 

James James Said to his Mother,

"Mother," he said, said he;

"You must never go down to the end of the town, if

you don't go down with me."
A. A. Milne - Disobedience