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To my mind, there's
no inconsistency

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between a fascination with
mechanism and technology

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and a fascination
with animal life.

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A lot of people set those
up as polar opposites.

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I'm equally fascinated by
both, and I'm not entirely sure

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that our taxonomies
that separate things out

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like animal, vegetable, mineral
are entirely to be believed.

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I have a lot of
skepticism about almost

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everything from the
appetizer to the dessert.

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And you'll see--
though I'm excruciating

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about animal life
and animal suffering,

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I also am fascinated
by mechanism

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and its responsiveness.

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It is, after all, one of our--

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if not an appendage
the thing to which

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an appendage is dedicated.

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So when I say webcam
the world, I'm

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as interested in the world
as the webcam, of course.

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"Webcam the World."

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"Get all of it.

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Set up the shots at every angle.

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Run them online 24/7.

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Get beautiful stuff like
scenery, and greenery,

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and style, and get the
ugliness like cruelty,

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and quackery, and rue.

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There's nothing unastonishing,
but get that too.

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We have to save it all now
that we can, and while.

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Do close-ups with electron
microscopes and vaster

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pans with planet cams.

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It may be getting close
to our last chance.

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How many millipedes
or elephants are left?

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How many minutes for
mind-blinded men?

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Use every lens you can.

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Get Dubliners in fisticuffs,
the last Beijinger

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with an abacus, the
boy in Addis Ababa who

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feeds the starving dog.

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And don't forget the
cows in neck irons when

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barns begin to burn,
the rollickers at clubs,

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the frolickers at forage.

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Take all the space you need.

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It's curved.

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Let mileage be footage.

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Let years be light.

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Get goggles for the hermitage
and shades for whorage.

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Don't be boggled
by totality, we're

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here to save the world
without exception.

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It will serve as
its own storage."

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