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I find much of this fascinating but it also tells me that our understanding of the universe is about as solid as an ant in a flower box, in a window in the Bronx, has of the world.

I agree 100% and then-some, but couldn't help thinking about this opening scene from a classic cartoon...

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I was born and raised on the Lower East Side of Manhattan myself: 1957 thru the end of 1970.

“Lola (or “Lolly” as Bugs calls her familiarly, also effecting her hoity-toity manner of speech) coaxes a biographical story out of Bugs, and he talks about growing up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan (presumably accounting for his accent).”

Bugs Bunny - A Hare Grows In Manhattan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGUVtBXCRtQ