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We had some dung out to try to catch the beetles and they were
flying in. Then they started making balls—the buggers!—and
rolling them away in perfectly straight lines, with no polarized
light . . . Both of us got very nervous, because suddenly it looked
like “Nature retractions, Nature retractions!”
Just a minute, there’s a big stripe of light across the sky! The
Milky Way. Maybe they’re using that—could they be using that?
There’s nothing else round here they could be using.
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