Twenty-four hours that define the human species
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Future alien archaeologists who discover Earth and try to figure out the civilization that once roamed it will have a thankless job.
How can you explain the species based only on the just-completed 24 hours, let alone centuries of existence?
Consider:
It marshaled the intelligence and talent to build a spacecraft, sending it on a five-year mission to a distant planet, and then got it to orbit in the name of science and knowledge.
It blew up a city in the name of religion. Then bombed two other cities for good measure, killing hundreds of innocent people.
It celebrated someone eating 70 hotdogs in 10 minutes.
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