N e v er e n d i ng thoughts

And it is only because of the extinction of the dinosaurs that our ancestors could get going. And the extinction of the dinosaurs seems to have been caused by an immense collision by an asteroid or cometary nucleus with the earth some 65 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous period. That is a statistical event, and if that had not happened maybe I would be ten feet tall with green scales and sharp pointy teeth, and you would be similarly tall and green and pointy-toothed. We would both likely consider ourselves extremely attractive. What handsome fellows we are. And how strange it would seem if I proposed that had things gone different, then the little mice that bother us might have evolved to become the dominant organism, and the only remnants of us would be salamanders and crocodiles and birds.

— Carl Sagan

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