They were just talking about how in the 6th century BC a solar eclipse occurred during a war between two factions in the middle east. It freaked both sides out so bad that they immediately negotiated a peace treaty for fear that the Gods were unhappy about the fighting.
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
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