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Great story! Strikes me though that the image we associate with the "whole earth" is only of a specific half.

An expansion on the revelation at the heart of many issues today.




I presume that's because the other half is mostly the Pacific Ocean (along one plane), or the empty southern oceans (along the other plane). I assume they went for utilitarianism, as opposed to actively discriminating against people living in Alaska and Japan.




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