I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

Michael Collins
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The first humans on the planet were probably alone for a very long time. They were the only ones, the only living things, on their own for the first time. The experience of being alone was nothing like any other experience that anyone had ever known. If you had asked any of them what it was like, they would have replied that it was like being in outer space.

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