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Fermi's death

To Whom It May Concern,

When one thinks about the ways days seem to pass, they never really consider the science behind it all. Usually, when one thinks about the day, they may stop to consider that the sun comes up in the morning, yielding a series of beautiful colors (or horribly similar grays, if the viewer is colorblind). They may stop to consider that, once up, the sun generally moves to the other side of the sky, except in those rare cases when it simply moves around the general area of the sky with little to no reason. They may stop to consider that, eventually, the sun must go down, at the other end of the sky from whence it came, a term here meaning "wherever it decided to rise that morning".

Rarely, they consider that the Earth is spinning at an unbelievably fast rate, and that it's spinning in a barely controlled circle around a gigantic fireball that could, at any second, stop existing, leaving us to hurtle, unchecked, through the universe, until presumably either finding a new sun or falling into a star or, perhaps, even eventually freezing over and becoming a comet for another larger planet in some unseen corner of the galaxy.

I, however, find it hard to believe that anyone who lives in this wet and dreary place ever considers any of those things, considering they have no way of telling where the Sun is, what time of day it is, or, even, what in the sea I could be talking about.

If that's the case, it seems I'm in a less friendly environment than I originally assumed, which is to say, I'm in no friendly environment at all.

Regards,
Lemony Snicket