Snippets from Jon Bois' 17776 and 20020, a story you read online about sentient 178th-century space probes who watch football all day.


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TEN: Well, Nine, you can think whatever you want. What do you think?

NINE: I think so. I think there's a higher power.

TEN: oh you're kidding me YOU'RE KIDDING ME

I'm a failure of a big sister.

NINE: Well! I mean! Nobody can explain why people are living forever, right? Nobody can explain what happened 15,000 years ago. It's a miracle.

JUICE: well to be fair

listen im gonna argue against myself here, that's the privilege of saying "maybe"

is that a miracle, yeah. i guess it is buuuut so's life in the first place. hell pull it back way further than that. the mere fact anything exists is a miracle in the first place

imagine if nothing ever existed in the universe except for a pebble. its surrounded by nothing and it never does nothing at all. why? why does it exist? THAT is a miracle

and to get from that to chemicals reacting and stars and magnetic fields and whatnot, thats a thousand miracles piled up on top of each other

and to get from that to life that crawls out the water and gets smart enough to make us and blow our lil tincan asses out here, thats just bein greedy

so if you ask me you got lots and lots and lots of homework to do before you can point to immortality as evidence of anything at all

TEN: Mhmm.

JUICE: but still

maybe

TEN: Mmph.

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