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"For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and
multiplying on a little automated spaceship called Earth, in an
automated Universe in which the entire process is so successfully
predesigned that men did not even know that they were
automated, regenerative passengers on a spaceship and were so
naive as to think they had invented their own success as they
lived egocentrically on a seemingly static Earth."
/ N.B. At Hugh Kenner’s house in Baltimore, in response to
an inquiry from the Baltimore SUN, RBF said that to the best of
his recollection this citation was his earliest reference to
spaceship Earth in print. – 3 Oct’73.
