isn’t it incredible that houses have pipes that carry clean water in and dirty water out and all you have to do is open a tap or push a button?

and that the networks that do this are built and operated by people and they run perfectly basically all the time?

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and there’s an entirely different set of pipes that carry the gaseous remains of simple marine organisms that died millions of years ago and we burn that to cook with, heat rooms and heat the water we get from the other pipes?

and people built those pipes and they work

and there are these wires that are all connected to the same network with lots of power plants of different kinds on it that spin in sync with each other, and they all slow down by the same imperceptible amount at the same time when I flick a light switch

and this all just works

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and that someone laid long strands of glass across the ocean floor so that we can blink light through them to write these messages to each other