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Aerial image of a deserted island in the ocean

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The Grand Canyon (Not pictured: The elevator to the bottom) • Photo by Alan Carrillo on Unsplash

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Before and after artist conception of a terraformed Mars

Artist's conception of a terraformed Mars • Image by Daein Ballard (CC BY-SA 3.0)

A little place near beach on Mars? Well, why not?

  • By Chet Raymo
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    • The spir­it of adven­ture. The chal­lenge of the unknown. Sci­en­tif­ic curios­i­ty. A com­mon project to unite humankind. A high-tech alter­na­tive for sci­en­tists and engi­neers who have hith­er­to made their liv­ing pro­duc­ing the instru­ments of war. Enter­tain­ment. The inspi­ra­tion of young peo­ple. A hedge on our sur­vival in case the human race becomes extinct on Earth through self-anni­hi­la­tion or cos­mic catastrophe.

    Image of German civilians walking past open mass grave filled with corpses

    A mass grave of prisoners at Nordhausen, victims of the Nazi rocket program, 1945

    Image of page from Leonardo da Vinci's notebook

    Excerpt from the Codex Hammer (Public Domain)

    Image of the digital edition of Wired magazine displayed on an iPad next to a print edition of the magazine

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    Image of a large Apple Newton next to a small Apple iPhone

    The Apple Newton (left) and an Apple iPhone (right) • Photo by Blake Patterson (CC BY 2.0)

    Image of an electric street railway car

    A preserved street railway car at the Seashore Trolley Museum, Kennebunkport, Maine • Photo by Rene Schwietzke (CC BY 2.0)