The universe and its design is often one of arbitrary horror.
With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary__he utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The search will continue. Not until the empirical resources are exhausted, need we pass on to the dreamy realms of speculation.
The Realm of the Nebulae
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With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary__he utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The search will continue. Not until the empirical resources are exhausted, need we pass on to the dreamy realms of speculation.
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