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This is a test, my friends. An experiment. I am reminded that not so many years ago a Polish mathematician thought that there was a chance that an experiment he had helped to devise would set the atmosphere of the earth on fire, ending human life. I suppose this is why the United States government — it was under their authority that the test was performed — picked a humid equatorial locale, a place where the dank air would surely smother any fire, leaving America’s postwar inheritance secure. The location of a test is sometimes important, is my point. But I don’t mention this to say that the location of this particular test is important. That is not my meaning at all! Not. At. All. It’s just that I know that you might have had that thought, and so I wanted to take a brief moment to inoculate. This is only a test, and the location — by which I mean the internet — was not chosen for any particular reason. Nor is there any reason to suppose that the test was conducted under the authority of the U. S. government. No reason at all. None.
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