on sunblock

"Rays today, raisins tomorrow."

sun the destroyer

"The world will be here with or without us, until the sun dies, 5 billion years hence. At that point, the sun's atmosphere will have expanded to engulf the entire orbits of Mercury, Venus and Earth, which will have become charred embers spiraling, one by one, to the crucible that is the sun's core."
 - Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist, American Museum of Natural History

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printing press

In 1700, the earth's total volume of printed material equalled 60 stacks of books each as high as Mt. Everest; currently the total volume of printed material equals 90 stacks of books extending to the distance of the sun.