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title: "Planet"
publishDate: "2025-12-11"
category: "existentials"
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There once was a planet.

Orbiting so close to the center of the universe, its relative time flowing hundreds of times faster than Earth's.

So far away, that by the time the light from it reached Earth, Earth's millennia have already passed.

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Yet humans of Earth were constantly monitoring it.

Looking at a long-dead world.

Studying it.

Documenting it.

Thousands of tools, millions of sensors.

Humans archived everything they could perceive.

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At last, the light from the planet's end time reached Earth.

What was observation, became history at that moment.

While the planet was already gone for thousands of years.

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As I sit back from my telescope I think to myself:

Was there ever a point in observing a long dead world?

Looking at something that you can't ever interact with?

Dead thousands of years before I was born?

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I leave the questions unanswered.
And I go back to looking at Earth.
