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Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 24 January 1976
IN MY PHYSICS textbook at school was an amazing photo of two galaxies colliding. Just imagine being on a planet in a system in either of those nebular spirals, watching all those heavenly bodies slide on by, because the odds were astronomically low that anything would collide. Far out!
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