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Human life/ end
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the name of the book that Kim Stanley Robinson published? | Red Mars |
| What was the name of the spacecraft, and where were the colonists heading? | Mars |
| Who are the "trans-nets? | Agents of the global economy |
| What did Kim Stanley Robinson Green Mars detailed? | The terraforming of the red planet - science-fiction term for adapting another planet or moon into a planet that can sustain life in the same way earth can. |
| What is the third in the trilogy, Blue mars talked about? | The terraforming has allowed for water to exist on Mars. |
| In what category did Robinson won numerous awards? | Science-fiction |
| What did the German astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler discovered? | The law of planetary motion in the 17th century by calculating the orbit of Mars. |
| Jules Verne was considered to be the father of what? | Science-fiction genre |
| In his book "The Outline of History" (1920), H.G. Wells wrote.. | "Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm among the stars." |
| In the 20th century, what did writers, scientist, and philosophers started to advocate? | Space colonization for ecological and political reasons. |
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