Spaceship Earth

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"For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and

multiplying on a little automated spaceship called Earth, in an

automated Universe in which the entire process is so successfully

predesigned that men did not even know that they were

automated, regenerative passengers on a spaceship and were so

naive as to think they had invented their own success as they

lived egocentrically on a seemingly static Earth."

/ N.B. At Hugh Kenner's house in Baltimore, in response to

an inquiry from the Baltimore SUN, RBF said that to the best of

his recollection this citation was his earliest reference to

spaceship Earth in print. -- 3 Oct'73.