Helmholtz was the son of the Potsdam Gymnasium headmaster, Ferdinand Helmholtz, who had studied classical philology and philosophy, and who was a close friend of the publisher and philosopher Immanuel Hermann Fichte. Helmholtz's work is influenced by the philosophy of Fichte and Kant. He tried to trace their theories in empirical matters like physiology. As a young man, Helmholtz was interested in natural science, but his father wanted him to study medicine at the Charité because there was financial support for medical students. Helmholtz wrote about many topics ranging from the ...

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Hermann von Helmholtz, Hermann von Helmholtz - Early life, Hermann von Helmholtz - Conservation of energy, Hermann von Helmholtz - Sensory physiology, Hermann von Helmholtz - Ophthalmic optics, Hermann von Helmholtz - Acoustics and aesthetics, Hermann von Helmholtz - Electromagnetism, Hermann von Helmholtz - Students and associates, Hermann von Helmholtz - Notes, Hermann von Helmholtz - Bibliography

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This was due to His devout devotion to Guru, His competence in rendering all kinds of service, and His untiring enthusiasm and diligence to serve Vishnu and the Vaishnavas. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura Prabhupada, seeing His undaunted spirit to contribute to the objective of the Institution by way of practicing and propagating the Gospel of Divine Love of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, used to commend Him by saying, "His energy is volcanic energy". Srimad Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura never hesitated to send Him to perform any imp ...

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Bhakti Dayita Madhav Goswami Maharaj, Bhakti Dayita Madhav Goswami Maharaj - His Early Life, Bhakti Dayita Madhav Goswami Maharaj - Divine Vision, Bhakti Dayita Madhav Goswami Maharaj - Taking Shelter of the Divine Master, Bhakti Dayita Madhav Goswami Maharaj - Srila Prabhupad's Volcanic Energy, Bhakti Dayita Madhav Goswami Maharaj - Taking Sanyasa, Bhakti Dayita Madhav Goswami Maharaj - Acquiring Prabhupad's birth Place in Puri, Bhakti Dayita Madhav Goswami Maharaj - His Preaching, Bhakti Dayita Madhav Goswami Maharaj - His Successor

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In September of 2003, DeGeneres launched a daytime television talk show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Amid a crop of several talk shows surfacing in 2003 and hosted by high-profile celebrities (including Sharon Osbourne and Rita Rudner), DeGeneres' show has consistently risen in the Nielsen Ratings and received widespread critical praise. DeGeneres' show was nominated for eleven Daytime Emmy Awards its freshman season, winning four, including Best Talk Show. Ellen is known for her dancing with the audience in the beginning of the show. On November 17, 2005, Ellen's show ...

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Ellen DeGeneres, Ellen DeGeneres - Career, Ellen DeGeneres - Television, Ellen DeGeneres - Ellen's Energy Adventure, Ellen DeGeneres - Lesbian relationship, Ellen DeGeneres - Autobiography, Ellen DeGeneres - The Ellen Show, Ellen DeGeneres - Performances, Ellen DeGeneres - Voice-overs, Ellen DeGeneres - TV work, Ellen DeGeneres - Personal life, Ellen DeGeneres - Discography, Ellen DeGeneres - Partial filmography

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DeGeneres's long-term lesbian relationship with former Another World actress Anne Heche turned into material for the lurid tabloid press. After several years in the spotlight, Heche broke up with DeGeneres and went on to marry male cameraman Coley Laffoon. DeGeneres then had a relationship with photographer Alexandra Hedison for several years, who lived opposite actor Kai Christophe Wong in Chelsea, New York. They appeared on the cover of Advocate magazine (ironically, after their split up had already been announced to the press). DeGeneres is now in a relationship with the ...

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Ellen DeGeneres, Ellen DeGeneres - Career, Ellen DeGeneres - Television, Ellen DeGeneres - Ellen's Energy Adventure, Ellen DeGeneres - Lesbian relationship, Ellen DeGeneres - Autobiography, Ellen DeGeneres - The Ellen Show, Ellen DeGeneres - Performances, Ellen DeGeneres - Voice-overs, Ellen DeGeneres - TV work, Ellen DeGeneres - Personal life, Ellen DeGeneres - Discography, Ellen DeGeneres - Partial filmography

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Born in Metairie, Louisiana of French, English, German and Irish descent, DeGeneres began her career as a stand-up comedian and appeared in small clubs, before she was chosen in a national competition as the funniest person in America. She then appeared on late night television and comedy programs. DeGeneres was sought out by Tonight Show booking agent/Producer Jim McCawley for her first appearance in 1986. She was the first female to ever be asked over to the couch to visit with Johnny Carson on her first visit. Jim McCawley truly believed that she was going to be a hit and often spoke in ...

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Ellen DeGeneres, Ellen DeGeneres - Career, Ellen DeGeneres - Television, Ellen DeGeneres - Ellen's Energy Adventure, Ellen DeGeneres - Lesbian relationship, Ellen DeGeneres - Autobiography, Ellen DeGeneres - The Ellen Show, Ellen DeGeneres - Performances, Ellen DeGeneres - Voice-overs, Ellen DeGeneres - TV work, Ellen DeGeneres - Personal life, Ellen DeGeneres - Discography, Ellen DeGeneres - Partial filmography

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DeGeneres returned to series TV in 2001 with a new CBS sitcom, The Ellen Show. Though her character was again a lesbian, it was not the central theme of the show. It received critical praise but low viewership and was canceled after one season. Although her second sitcom was not a success, Ellen did receive wide exposure on November 4, 2001, when she served as hostess of the Emmy Awards-TV show. Presented following two cancellations due to fears that a showy ceremony would appear insensitive following the September 11, 2001 ter ...

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Ellen DeGeneres, Ellen DeGeneres - Career, Ellen DeGeneres - Television, Ellen DeGeneres - Ellen's Energy Adventure, Ellen DeGeneres - Lesbian relationship, Ellen DeGeneres - Autobiography, Ellen DeGeneres - The Ellen Show, Ellen DeGeneres - Performances, Ellen DeGeneres - Voice-overs, Ellen DeGeneres - TV work, Ellen DeGeneres - Personal life, Ellen DeGeneres - Discography, Ellen DeGeneres - Partial filmography

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By August, the Finns had reconquered the Karelian Isthmus, threatening Leningrad from the West, and were advancing through Karelia east of Lake Ladoga, threatening Leningrad from the North. The Finnish forces were stopped somehow at the 1939's border. The Finnish headquarters rejected German pleas for aerial attacks against Leningrad and did not advance further south from the River Svir in the occupied East Karelia. German progress was rapid and by September the Wehrmacht had invested Leningrad. In the North, Finnish forces continued their advance until reaching S ...

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Siege of Leningrad, Siege of Leningrad - German offensive, Siege of Leningrad - Finnish offensive, Siege of Leningrad - Supplies, Siege of Leningrad - Food, Siege of Leningrad - Power and energy, Siege of Leningrad - The Road of Life, Siege of Leningrad - Soviet counter-offensive, Siege of Leningrad - Cultural influence, Siege of Leningrad - Bibliography

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Siege of Leningrad - Food. On September 2 rations were reduced: the workers had 600 grams of bread daily, employees - 400, children and dependants - 300. A huge amount of grain, flour and sugar was wiped out on September 8 due to a lack of measures on air defence. During several days after the siege was set, however, it was possible to eat in some "commercial" restaurants which used up to 12% of all fats and up to 10% of all meat the city consumed. On September 12, 1942 it was calculated that the provisions both ...

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Siege of Leningrad, Siege of Leningrad - German offensive, Siege of Leningrad - Finnish offensive, Siege of Leningrad - Supplies, Siege of Leningrad - Food, Siege of Leningrad - Power and energy, Siege of Leningrad - The Road of Life, Siege of Leningrad - Soviet counter-offensive, Siege of Leningrad - Cultural influence, Siege of Leningrad - Bibliography

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The siege continued until Operation "Spark" — a full-scale offensive of troops of the Leningrad and Volkhov Fronts — started in the morning of January 12, 1943. After fierce battles, the Red Army units overcame the powerful German fortifications to the South of the Ladoga Lake, and on January 18, 1943 the Leningrad and Volkhov Fronts met, opening a land corridor to the besieged city. In January 1944, a Soviet offensive drove off the besieging Germans from the southern outskirts of the city, ending the siege. Later, in the summer of 1944, the Finns were pushed ba ...

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Siege of Leningrad, Siege of Leningrad - German offensive, Siege of Leningrad - Finnish offensive, Siege of Leningrad - Supplies, Siege of Leningrad - Food, Siege of Leningrad - Power and energy, Siege of Leningrad - The Road of Life, Siege of Leningrad - Soviet counter-offensive, Siege of Leningrad - Cultural influence, Siege of Leningrad - Bibliography

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After the 1954 Security hearings, Oppenheimer is reported to have been "like a wounded animal", and he started to retreat to a simpler life. In 1957, he purchased a piece of land on Gibney Beach in the island of St John in the Virgin Islands. He built a spartan vacation home on the beach, where he would spend holidays, usually months at a time, with his wife Kitty. Oppenheimer also spent a considerable amount of time sailing with his wife. Upon their death, the property was inherited by their daughter Toni, who then left it to "the people of ...

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Robert Oppenheimer, Robert Oppenheimer - Early life and education, Robert Oppenheimer - Europe, Robert Oppenheimer - California, Robert Oppenheimer - Radical politics, Robert Oppenheimer - The Manhattan Project, Robert Oppenheimer - Los Alamos, Robert Oppenheimer - Trinity, Robert Oppenheimer - Japan, Robert Oppenheimer - Postwar activities, Robert Oppenheimer - Atomic Energy Commission, Robert Oppenheimer - Security hearings, Robert Oppenheimer - Institute for Advanced Study, Robert Oppenheimer - Final years, Robert Oppenheimer - Legacy, Robert Oppenheimer - Notes, Robert Oppenheimer - On Oppenheimer's first initial

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Robert Oppenheimer's life is usually seen to highlight a number of cultural and historical trends in the transformation of science from the 1920s through the 1950s. As a scientist, Oppenheimer is remembered by his students and colleagues as being a brilliant researcher and engaging teacher, the founder of modern theoretical physics in the United States. Many have asked why Oppenheimer never won a Nobel Prize. Scholars respond that his scientific attentions often changed rapidly and he never worked long enough on any one topic to achie ...

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Robert Oppenheimer, Robert Oppenheimer - Early life and education, Robert Oppenheimer - Europe, Robert Oppenheimer - California, Robert Oppenheimer - Radical politics, Robert Oppenheimer - The Manhattan Project, Robert Oppenheimer - Los Alamos, Robert Oppenheimer - Trinity, Robert Oppenheimer - Japan, Robert Oppenheimer - Postwar activities, Robert Oppenheimer - Atomic Energy Commission, Robert Oppenheimer - Security hearings, Robert Oppenheimer - Institute for Advanced Study, Robert Oppenheimer - Final years, Robert Oppenheimer - Legacy, Robert Oppenheimer - Notes, Robert Oppenheimer - On Oppenheimer's first initial

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This is a common theme among Greens in general, who have a broad critique of dominator culture and monoculture which has flowered in the anti-globalization movement to unite with other critics of global capitalism. Some, following systems biology, differentiate "between Plant (energy-binding), Animal (space-binding), Human (time-binding) and Truth-binding mechanisms" among which they variously count religion, banking, capitalism and economics itself. Whether greens will ever agree on a single "truth- ...

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Green economics, Green economics - Green is non-neoclassical, Green economics - Tendencies and factions, Green economics - Life versus not, Green economics - Ecologies produce people create local is more reliable, Green economics - Small is beautiful, Green economics - Can green go global?, Green economics - Can green fight global?, Green economics - Biology versus buying, Green economics - Value of life, Green economics - Are humans infinitely precious?, Green economics - Influences and opponents

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One holy grail of green economists is a theory of why humans see value in such commodities as gold, and why they habitually reward social and sexual fitness (i.e. appearances) strongly over ecological fitness (i.e. energy efficiency, survival) whenever they have the luxury to build complex financial systems. This parallels and opposes the ambition of neoclassical economics to find parallels in radically autonomous physics and chemistry - but the two views are complementary, and come together in such doctrines as Natural Capitalism, which seems to ...

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Green economics, Green economics - Green is non-neoclassical, Green economics - Tendencies and factions, Green economics - Life versus not, Green economics - Ecologies produce people create local is more reliable, Green economics - Small is beautiful, Green economics - Can green go global?, Green economics - Can green fight global?, Green economics - Biology versus buying, Green economics - Value of life, Green economics - Are humans infinitely precious?, Green economics - Influences and opponents

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Three assumptions that seem to be universal among green economists are: That living ecoregions are better valued as service-producing natural capital than as passive natural resources. That creative "enterprise" or individual capital must be differentiated from more general ideas or analyses of human capital or human resources, as what characterizes both evolution and intelligence is an unpredictable and creative movement towards greater energy economy, e.g. a tree spans a volume so as to most effectively convert availa ...

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Green economics, Green economics - Green is non-neoclassical, Green economics - Tendencies and factions, Green economics - Life versus not, Green economics - Ecologies produce people create local is more reliable, Green economics - Small is beautiful, Green economics - Can green go global?, Green economics - Can green fight global?, Green economics - Biology versus buying, Green economics - Value of life, Green economics - Are humans infinitely precious?, Green economics - Influences and opponents

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Robert Oppenheimer - On Oppenheimer's first initial. The meaning of the "J" in J. Robert Oppenheimer has been the source of confusion among many. Historians Alice Kimball Smith and Charles Weiner sum it up best, in their volume Robert Oppenheimer: Letters and recollections (Harvard University Press: Cambridge, 1980), on page 1: "Whether the 'J' in Robert's name stood for Julius or, as Robert himself once said, 'for nothing' may never be fully resolved. His brother Frank surmises that the 'J' was symbolic, ...

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Robert Oppenheimer, Robert Oppenheimer - Early life and education, Robert Oppenheimer - Europe, Robert Oppenheimer - California, Robert Oppenheimer - Radical politics, Robert Oppenheimer - The Manhattan Project, Robert Oppenheimer - Los Alamos, Robert Oppenheimer - Trinity, Robert Oppenheimer - Japan, Robert Oppenheimer - Postwar activities, Robert Oppenheimer - Atomic Energy Commission, Robert Oppenheimer - Security hearings, Robert Oppenheimer - Institute for Advanced Study, Robert Oppenheimer - Final years, Robert Oppenheimer - Legacy, Robert Oppenheimer - Notes, Robert Oppenheimer - On Oppenheimer's first initial

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Robert Oppenheimer was born in New York City on April 22, 1904 to Julius S. Oppenheimer (a wealthy textile importer who had emigrated to the United States from Germany in 1888) and Ella Friedman, an artist. He studied at the Ethical Culture Society School (whose physics laboratory has since been named for him) where, in addition to mathematics and science, he was exposed to a variety of subjects ranging from Greek to French literature, and met with success at the school's particular form of ethical training, based on the secular Judaism of i ...

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Robert Oppenheimer, Robert Oppenheimer - Early life and education, Robert Oppenheimer - Europe, Robert Oppenheimer - California, Robert Oppenheimer - Radical politics, Robert Oppenheimer - The Manhattan Project, Robert Oppenheimer - Los Alamos, Robert Oppenheimer - Trinity, Robert Oppenheimer - Japan, Robert Oppenheimer - Postwar activities, Robert Oppenheimer - Atomic Energy Commission, Robert Oppenheimer - Security hearings, Robert Oppenheimer - Institute for Advanced Study, Robert Oppenheimer - Final years, Robert Oppenheimer - Legacy, Robert Oppenheimer - Notes, Robert Oppenheimer - On Oppenheimer's first initial

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When World War II started, Oppenheimer eagerly became involved in the efforts to develop an atomic bomb which were already taking up much of the time and facilities of Lawrence's Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley. In 1941, Lawrence, Vannevar Bush, Arthur Compton, and James Conant were trying to wrest the bomb project from the Uranium Committee established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939, because they felt it was proceeding too slowly. Oppenheimer was invited to take over work on fast neutron calculations, a task which he threw hims ...

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Robert Oppenheimer, Robert Oppenheimer - Early life and education, Robert Oppenheimer - Europe, Robert Oppenheimer - California, Robert Oppenheimer - Radical politics, Robert Oppenheimer - The Manhattan Project, Robert Oppenheimer - Los Alamos, Robert Oppenheimer - Trinity, Robert Oppenheimer - Japan, Robert Oppenheimer - Postwar activities, Robert Oppenheimer - Atomic Energy Commission, Robert Oppenheimer - Security hearings, Robert Oppenheimer - Institute for Advanced Study, Robert Oppenheimer - Final years, Robert Oppenheimer - Legacy, Robert Oppenheimer - Notes, Robert Oppenheimer - On Oppenheimer's first initial

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Overnight, Oppenheimer became a national spokesman for science, and emblematic of a new type of technocratic power. Nuclear physics became a powerful force as all governments of the world began to realize the strategic and political power which came with nuclear weapons and their horrific implications. Like many scientists of his generation, he felt that security from atomic bombs would come only from some form of transnational organization (such as the newly formed United Nations) which could institute a program to stifle a nuclear arms race. ...

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Robert Oppenheimer, Robert Oppenheimer - Early life and education, Robert Oppenheimer - Europe, Robert Oppenheimer - California, Robert Oppenheimer - Radical politics, Robert Oppenheimer - The Manhattan Project, Robert Oppenheimer - Los Alamos, Robert Oppenheimer - Trinity, Robert Oppenheimer - Japan, Robert Oppenheimer - Postwar activities, Robert Oppenheimer - Atomic Energy Commission, Robert Oppenheimer - Security hearings, Robert Oppenheimer - Institute for Advanced Study, Robert Oppenheimer - Final years, Robert Oppenheimer - Legacy, Robert Oppenheimer - Notes, Robert Oppenheimer - On Oppenheimer's first initial

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vibrational medicine (energetic medicine, energetics medicine, energy medicine, subtle-energy medicine, vibrational healing, vibrational therapies): Healing philosophy whose main tenet is that humans are dynamic energy systems (body/mind/spirit complexes) and reflect evolutionary patterns of soul growth.

Its principles include the following:

(a)   Health and illness originate in subtle energy systems.

(b)  These systems coordinate the life-force and the physical body.

(c)   Emotions, spirituality, and nutritional and environmental factors affect the subtle energy systems.

Vibrational medicine embraces acupuncture, aromatherapy, Bach flower therapy, chakra rebalancing, channeling, color breathing, color therapy, crystal healing, absent healing, Electroacupuncture According to Voll (EAV), etheric touch, flower essence therapy, homeopathy, Kirlian photography, laserpuncture, the laying on of hands, meridian therapy, mesmerism, moxibustion, orthomolecular medicine, Past-life Regression, Polarity Therapy, psychic healing, psychic surgery, radionics, the Simonton method, sonopuncture, Toning, Transcendental Meditation, and Therapeutic Touch.

The expressions energy healing, energy work, and energetic healing work appear synonymous with vibrational medicine.

(See also: Vibrational medicine, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

‘A gigantic spiritual personality,’ Srila Gurudeva pierced the fortress of impersonalist philosophy in Punjab, where he was first to introduce the Divine Love of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. Tenth in the preceptorial line from Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Srila Gurudeva founded Sree Chaitanya Gaudiya Math organisation Institution in 1953 and established many large preaching centers. He wandered from village to village, travelling by foot and sometimes by oxcart, simply to brin ...

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Bhakti Dayita Madhav Goswami Maharaj, Bhakti Dayita Madhav Goswami Maharaj - His Early Life, Bhakti Dayita Madhav Goswami Maharaj - Divine Vision, Bhakti Dayita Madhav Goswami Maharaj - Taking Shelter of the Divine Master, Bhakti Dayita Madhav Goswami Maharaj - Srila Prabhupad's Volcanic Energy, Bhakti Dayita Madhav Goswami Maharaj - Taking Sanyasa, Bhakti Dayita Madhav Goswami Maharaj - Acquiring Prabhupad's birth Place in Puri, Bhakti Dayita Madhav Goswami Maharaj - His Preaching, Bhakti Dayita Madhav Goswami Maharaj - His Successor

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Building cities in space will require materials, energy, transportation, communications, life support, and radiation protection. Space colonization - Materials. Colonies on the Moon and Mars can use local materials, although the Moon is deficient in carbon and nitrogen. For orbital colonies, launching materials from Earth is very expensive, so bulk materials should come from the Moon or Near-Earth Objects (NEOs - asteroids and comets with orbits near Earth) where gravitational forces are much less, there i ...

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Space colonization, Space colonization - Method, Space colonization - Materials, Space colonization - Energy, Space colonization - Transportation, Space colonization - Communication, Space colonization - Life support, Space colonization - Radiation protection, Space colonization - Self-replication, Space colonization - Population size, Space colonization - Location, Space colonization - Orbit, Space colonization - Asteroid, Space colonization - Terrestrial analogues, Space colonization - Mercury, Space colonization - Venus, Space colonization - Europa, Space colonization - Gas Giants, Space colonization - Space habitats, Space colonization - Spaceship, Space colonization - Justification, Space colonization - Advocacy, Space colonization - Objections

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