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Feb. 28, 2013 — Consider this for a moment: Dinosaurs might still be alive today if they had had a space program. If dinosaurs — Stegosauruses, Velociraptors, whichever genus proved the most adept with a slide rule — had developed a means of traveling to and eventually settling other planets, the species as a whole would have survived the asteroid strike that otherwise spelled its doom some 66 million years ago. And it would likely live on today in a Mars colony or a moon base or a size-appropriate space station. So argued Andrew Rader, an aerospace engineer and possibly...Read full article

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    Published: February 2013
    3-D printing technologyAndrew RaderCommunicationsDifferent Wavelengthsfree-space optical communicationsFuture Prospects of Human Space SettlementGary BoasGary Boas Bloghuman spaceflightindustrialNerd Nite Bostonterraforming

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