Can you explain this phrase for me?
[news anchorman] It was only this morning, by evolution's clock, that he fashioned the glass that brought distance close, showed him that his world, the epicenter of everything, is only a small speck in the second-rate solar system...
It's about Moon Landing and Armstrong.
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"by evolution's clock" refers to measuring things on the long timescales over which evolution happens. By this clock, events that happened hundreds of years ago seem like "only this morning". "fashioned the glass that brought distance close" is an ornate way of saying "invented the telescope".
- "by evolution's clock" refers to measuring things on the long timescales over which evolution happens.
- By this clock, events that happened hundreds of years ago seem like "only this morning".
- "fashioned the glass that brought distance close" is an ornate way of saying "invented the telescope".
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"by evolution's clock" refers to measuring things on the long timescales over which evolution happens. By this clock, events that happened hundreds of years ago seem like "only this morning". "fashioned the glass that brought distance close" is an ornate way of saying "invented the telescope".
0Mona Sabbat[news anchorman] It was only this morning, by evolution's clock, that he fashioned the glass that brought distance close, showed him that his world, the epicenter of everything, is only a small speck in the second-rate solar system...
It's about Moon Landing and Armstrong.
It would help if you said who "he" was.
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