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On December 18, 2004, magical jaguars in a decaying orbit around the world prevent the formation of a stable strangelet at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.

“It’s not that I really want the world to keep going,” Yohl confesses. “It’s just —”

If the sorcerer-sages of the Mayans hadn’t shot them into space, the magical jaguars wouldn’t have to prevent the formation of stable strangelets. They could end the world themselves. They could fall on people. And then fall on other people. And more, and more, and more! And then they could crack the world open and they could play in its shattered corpse!

“I’m just attached to it,” Yohl concludes.

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