It all starts with, presumably, the Big Bang, wherein a single point in space barfs forth a hot, violent soup of particles and energy that take a few hundred million years just to cool down enough to begin coalescing into stars. You know... to "cool down" enough to become giant fucking balls of fire. Stars ignite. Star clusters form, and become galaxies. Rocks in space start running into each other, and a few planets are created. Eventually, the Earth is born. Hooray! The Earth sits there for a few more billion years, until, after a lot of back and forth and general bureaucratic indecision,
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