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Driving the kids to preschool this morning.

I: “Daddy, does everybody see the same sun?”

M: “If it’s day here, is it night in China?”

A short lecture on the earth-sun geometry and rotation of the earth ensues.

I: “But daddy, if the earth is spinning why don’t all of these cars fall off?”

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