For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
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Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety‐two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape‐descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
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For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much ‐ the wheel, New York, wars and so on ‐ whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man ‐ for precisely the same reasons.
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The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
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Low Rider, War

Ticket To Ride, The Beatles

Magic Bus, The Who

Riders on the Storm, The Doors

Us And Them, Pink Floyd