No stories around the campfire.

Tom is used to cooking on a campfire.

Video Look at all this stuff that's here for our campfire.

And I think that the television is like the global campfire.

And that distance and knowing that amount of light is important because it's a little like you or I sitting around a campfire You want to be close enough to the campfire so that you're warm, but not so close that you're too toasty and you get burned.

I saw chains of jellyfish called siphonophores that were longer than this room, pumping out so much light that I could read the dials and gauges inside the suit without a flashlight and puffs and billows of what looked like luminous blue smoke and explosions of sparks that would swirl up out of the thrusters just like when you throw a log on a campfire and the embers swirl up off the campfire, but these were icy, blue embers.

And it happened again, even more spectacularly, in the last half million years when our own ancestors became cultural creatures, they came together around a hearth or a campfire, they divided labor, they began painting their bodies, they spoke their own dialects, and eventually they worshiped their own gods.