Enjoy the light and warmth from a nearby star. Signs of luxurious water vapor move overhead. Lovely sounds of life are everywhere. Truly, a marvelous (if rather smallish) water-rich planet with an astounding variety of life forms in an otherwise barren and minor solar system. A bit out of the way, but worth the visit.
Some species here are more prevalent and persistent, while some are struggling and disappearing. What will evolve to survive? What will not?
There is a simple balancing equation seemingly unknown to the more sentient inhabitants here. They have yet to overcome the behaviors and beliefs that rose from when they were weak and powerless creatures on a wilder world.
As we have learned, sustainable corporeal life experiments are so rare and exceedingly difficult to arrange in the first place, but, of course, there is nothing if not time for an endless consciousness, puttering with the dilemma of being, to work it all out.
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