>[!abstract] >The idea that, for the first time, matter starts leaving our planet to go into space, as opposed to matter just falling down. >[!quote] >"Eventually, four billion years later, again came something completely new: novel, stark, inorganic geometries began quickly remaking the surface. Suddenly, the nightside lit up in bright, spreading webs. Then there was a curious anti-accretion: some pieces of Earth, in seeming defiance of the laws of gravity, started launching themselves back out into the surrounding space from whence everything had once quickly fallen. To Distant Climes I don’t know if space junkies are born or made, but my timing was good." ([[Grinspoon, 2016]]). >[!related] >- **North** (upstream): [[Anthropocene]] >- **West** (similar): — >- **East** (different): — >- **South** (downstream): —