Or rather, in Europa.

You live your whole life in water, between the firmament above and the firmament below. Your entire civilization has risen without once sparking a fire. You may not even know what light is; you might have other ways to see the world around you. Some days you wonder what might lie beyond the firmaments; perhaps there are other vast seas like your own, locked behind the walls of an infinite universe of solid stone and ice, and open liquid realms.

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We are all chemical processing plants.

Like those big, industrial complexes you drive by on the highway, with their tall chimneys and squat round tanks the size of a house, paying them little to no heed at all.

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