Definitely the first one. The movie wasn’t great, but worth the watch.
The sea is harsh and cruel with its hatred toward human
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You would use a semicolon (;) when you could stop a sentence but choose to continue it further.
Answer:
The word "protracted" means lasting longer than expected, or unusually long, so what protracted most clearly means based on the context of the excerpt is how the time period of celestial motion studies must have lasted unusually long.
