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Cobolt miner baby

Cobolt miner baby
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There was once a baby in Gabon who mined for cobalt. He had an amazing pick-axe, with a pure diamond head. It was the finest, lightest, strongest pick-axe in all of Africa. Because this baby spent all day everyday mining, he had incredibly strong arms. In fact, they were so strong they looked like adult arms, but he was in fact a baby.


This baby had a huge following on TikTok, in part due to his strong arms and fine pick-axe, but also because he created a viral dance - "Do the pick-axe". After spending so long mining, this baby became extremely tired, his eyelids became heavy and he almost drifted off to sleep.


One day, this baby with adult-looking arms was selected to go into space. Mali had just developed a space program, and this baby was selected to be sent on one of the first space flights because he had such a large following on TikTok.


When he was in space, wearing a chainmail space suit, the baby saw other babies in space, too. One particular baby had incredibly strong legs: so strong, in fact, they looked like adult legs. At first he thought the strong-legged baby might have been an alien - but then the other baby explained he had such strong legs from jumping. He jumped a lot - all day most days, and could jump really high. In fact, he was so popular on social media because he could jump so high. But jumping was tiring, and the baby started to feel sleepy, his mind became empty, his eyelids became heavy, and he gradually closed his eyes and started to dream of all his baby astronaut friends in their chainmail space suits.


The miner baby and some other baby astronauts landed on a meteor, and, using his diamond pick-axe, managed to mine some rare heavy metals, which would be sent back to earth and used by scientific institutions to gain extra-terrestrial knowledge.