How did you come up with the idea for the stories in the expand series?

I said, Ty, what happens when he told me? It was great.

No, seriously, because it's so good.

This idea that this proto molecule comes from an asteroid from far away

and it just upends everything about humanity

and we can't really handle it very well

because we're just really good at taking our political problems with us

wherever we go in this universe.

And it's just really, really good.

That's just history. That's every major technological advance in human history.

We've been doing that same pattern of the organism not changing

and the structures around the organism being transformed by technology

since we came up with fire.

Yeah, I mean, I'm sure that the first thing prehistoric handed

when he discovered how to set things on fire

as he started setting his neighbors on fire.

That's just the way, that's just the way we work.

This is on point. I'm Magna Chakrabardi and...

This is Daniel. I can hear you.

And the other guy is Ty.

The other guy being Ty Frank.

Ty and his friend, Daniel Abraham,

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