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Allow me to also raise this point of perspective: not only was the night sky during the end Cretaceous radically different than our own today; but the night sky gazed upon by the first dinosaurs looked even more radically different from the night sky of the last dinosaurs than our modern night sky does.

The constellations under which the first sharks were born are so far back in time that they are utterly unknowable to ourselves, two galactic orbits later. We cannot trace the paths of the stars that far into the past.

Chew on that for a bit and then tell me you're still comfortable with your place in the cosmos.