"Time, events, or the unaided individual action of the mind will sometimes undermine or destroy an opinion, without any outward sign of the change."
Alexis de Tocqueville
illustration: one in a series positing what planets would look like if they were the same distance from the Earth as the Moon is. (Although in fact it wouldn't--a planet that size would have devastating gravitational effects, so our planet wouldn't be what it is.) This is Neptune.
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