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Whichever approach is chosen, what all of them have in common is the speed with which they could be pulled off. Unlike the early Apollo planners, who weren't even sure they could get astronauts into near-Earth space, much less fling them out to the moon, Mars-mission directors...
Until they get the nod, the Mars partisans have to find ways to keep busy. Research teams from NASA and the Mars Society (a private advocacy group) are conducting expeditions to Devon Island in the Canadian Arctic--a place about as similar to the freeze-dried Martian wasteland as you...
For years Congress funded various SETI efforts--until the political stigma of paying for the quest for "little green men," as cynics like to call them, scuttled federal funding in 1993. Nonetheless, NASA continues the search for unearthly life, even if it's only for little green bugs, under the...
But the grander dream--of contacting extraintelligent E.T.s like those canal-building Martians imagined by the early 20th century astronomer Percival Lowell--lives on in the radio and optical searches underwritten by private outfits like Drake's SETI Institute and the Planetary Society. And even scientists dubious of success don...
WILL WE LIVE ON MARS? WILL WE TRAVEL TO THE STARS? WILL WE TRAVEL BACK (OR FORWARD) IN TIME? WILL SOMEONE BUILD A PERPETUAL-MOTION MACHINE? WILL WE MEET E.T.? WILL A KILLER ASTEROID HIT THE EARTH? HOW WILL THE UNIVERSE END? WILL WE DISCOVER ANOTHER UNIVERSE? WILL THE MIND...