Thermodynamic miracles @ 6:13 PM

Quoted from Watchmen, graphic novel

"Thermodynamic miracles...events with odds against so astronomical, they're effectively impossible, like oxygen spontaneously becoming gold...and yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive; meeting; desiring this precise son, that exact daughter...until your mother loves a man she has every reason to hate, and of that, a union, of the thousand million children competing for fertilization, it was you, only you, that emerged. To distill so specific a form from that chaos of improbability, like turning air to gold...that is the crowning unlikelihood, the thermodynamic miracle.

...But the world is so full of people, so crowded with these miracle that they become commonplace and we forget. I forget. We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away."

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Another beautiful day. Cold, but beautiful. When is this freezing spell going to end. Isn't it about time for shorts, tunics and flats?
Presti, the infinitely cool MCB professor wears green glasses. Green is the new black, yo!