“On an alien, unexplored planet with unfamiliar skies signs of life may be difficult to find.
But what is that in the distance? It’s dark, but something is ahead.
Those shapes, rising out of the blackness, they are surely geometrical. Are they the top of buildings? Is that industrial smog? Is this the life we are looking for?”
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