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* ScienceMarchesOn: At one point the book says Cthulhu has awakened after vigintillions of years. A vigintillion is either 10^63 or 10^120. As the book came out before the Big Bang theory was proposed, such a long time wasn't impossible. There is still some ArtisticLicense, in that it ''was'' already known that Earth was "only" a few billion years old, yet it's implied he spend his whole time sleeping there.
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** CosmicHorrorStory
** DidYouJustIndexCthulhu
** GoMadFromTheRevelation

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* ScienceMarchesOn: At one point the book says Cthulhu has awakened after vigintillions of years. A vigintillion is either 10^63 or 10^120. As the book came out before the Big Bang theory was proposed, such a long time wasn't impossible. There is still some ArtisticLicense, in that it ''was'' already known that Earth was "only" a few billion years old, yet it's implied he spend his whole time sleeping there.
* TropeNamer;
** CosmicHorrorStory
** DidYouJustIndexCthulhu
** GoMadFromTheRevelation
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* ScienceMarchesOn: At one point the book says Cthulhu has awakened after vigintillions of years. A vigintillion is either 10^63 or 10^120. As the book came out before the Big Bang theory was proposed, such a long time wasn't impossible. There is still some ArtisticLicense, in that it ''was'' already known that Earth was "only" a few billion years old, yet it's implied he spend his whole time sleeping there.
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* TropeNamer;
** CosmicHorrorStory
** DidYouJustIndexCthulhu
** GoMadFromTheRevelation

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