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" Would offering the Mars Prize damage NASA? I don't think so. "
Robert Zubrin
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" Putin and many of his gang may have once been Communists, but they are not that today. Rather, they have embraced a new totalitarian political ideology known as 'Eurasianism.' "
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" If the auto companies were free agents, they would act to break the fuel monopoly that is so damaging to their own interests and those of their customers. But they are not, and so they won't. "
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" The U.S. federal government may be going broke, but it's not because of NASA. "
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