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After 50 years of television, there’s no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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If each dead person became a ghost, there’d be more than 100 billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool.
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