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" I very much believe the Internet is indeed all it is cracked up to be. "
Jeff Bezos
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" I read 'The High Frontier' in high school. I read it multiple times, and I was already primed. As soon as I read it, it made sense to me. It seemed very clear that planetary surfaces were not the right place for an expanding civilization inside our solar system. "
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