Extended Classic – Cosmic Queries: Colonizing Mars

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Extended Classic – Cosmic Queries: Colonizing Mars

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Dec 28, 2018

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Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice answer your Cosmic Queries about colonizing Mars. Now extended with more questions on militarizing space, the wild frontier of space law, planetary orbits, gravity, Pluto, the heliosphere, the Drake equation, Panspermia, and more.

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Dec 28, 2018

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