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AFTER PEOPLE WHAT?: A Speculative Post

by Christina Davis

This post explores the mystery of an as-yet undigitized reel, and the larger questions it inspires about the extent of the communicable, the nature of questions, and the history of humanity's attempts to reach beyond itself into the cosmos....

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AFTER PEOPLE WHAT?: A Speculative Post

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