This story originally featured on the MIT Press Reader. Exploration, habitation, and resource extraction all carry a risk of inflicting environmental damage in space, just as they do here on Earth.
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What would it take to terraform other planets?
Terraforming gets treated like a sci-fi upgrade menu—click a button, get oceans. Real life is uglier: even famous scientists ...
We’ve heard about terraforming the Moon and Mars as we attempt to colonize space, but what about Venus? Could we live here one day? Rob Reiner’s son Nick arrested after parents’ death The latest: ...
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