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If we think of raisins as a stand-in for galaxies, and batter as the space between them, we can imagine that the stretching or expansion of intergalactic space will make the galaxies recede from each other, and for any galaxy, its faraway neighbors will recede a larger distance than the nearby ones in the same amount of time.

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Yet, no amount of diplomacy or institutional design can make up for local failures and the consequences that they have.

That's an amazing amount of human endeavor.

And what you'll find is that a tremendous amount of work gets done when no one talks to each other.

But if we would count all the individuals, and we take an average weight of them, it would amount to something like 200 to 2,000 kilograms for each of you and me on Earth.

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