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2025

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Maps is about geological time or rather, our inability to comprehend it.

‘Stretch your arm out to the side. Now imagine drawing a timeline of (a) meteorite’s life beginning at the middle of your chin and extending to the tip of your middle finger. On that timeline, the crystal-clear ocean, home to mosasaurs and dinosaurs, would come into existence around the middle of your palm. The great ice sheet at the tip of your finger.

Next, take a nail file and make a pass over the end of your fingernail. On the meteorite’s timeline, you’ve now wiped out all of human civilization.’

Helen Gordon, The Meteorites. Encounters with Outer Space and Deep Time.