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[โ€“] wren@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's still mind blowing to think that 'on the verge of' is only from our point of view, meanwhile this happened 5,000 years ago

In the cosmic timescale, 5000 years is only like a few seconds. It would take millions of years for the gases to fully form a planet.