[meta?] [infinities?] This means something, but I don't know what.

[M Fnord]

Following up on that last bit:

"So, if there's so many Earths out there... which one's the real one?"

"Weeellllll..." Yori scratched her head nervously. "That's kind of a sticky question."

"Sticky, great. How sticky?"

"Obviously, we wanna say that our Earth's the original, and you wanna say your Earth's the original, right? Well, right now our best guess is 'neither.'"

"... Okay, I admit I was not expecting that, but the question still stands: which one's the original?"

"We don't know about original, but the oldest one we've found so far nuked itself into oblivion sometime in the 1970s..."

"That's not that far back for either of us."

"Yeah, except that for them, the 1970s were about a million years ago."

"I know the feeling, the 70s seem like a million years ago to me too."

Yori shook her head. "No, I mean a real million years ago."

"The 1970s."

"Yep."

"A million years ago?"

"Uhhuh."

"And you know this because...?"

"Radiocarbon dating and some very durable public art."

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