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Why We Should Go Into Space - Stephen Hawking PDF
Why We Should Go Into Space - Stephen Hawking PDF
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Keynote Speakers:
University of Cambridge
Also Present:
Morton Auditorium
Washington, D.C.
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P R O C E E D I N G S
afternoon.
Dr. Knapp.
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NASA.
stimulating lecture.
program, and for the more than 40 years since then, GW has
education efforts.
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inception.
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Congress.
Ambassador Russell.
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astrophysicists.
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to Professor Hawking and asked for advice and asked for him
sadness at not being here today but also his pleasure and
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way.
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attention.
generally.
long-term strategy.
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you.
such a big part in our lives, and yet at the same time, it
it.
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science.
enormously."
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production.
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Armstrong.
from pictures.
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education.
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never tire of, and because of NASA, they can read about it,
today are, the ones who watched the Apollo Moon landings in
planet, what the Earth looks like from space. They can see
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grow up and go into space, but we are saying that the work
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the universe?
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in the galaxy.
We know that Earth has been hit by meteors that came from
remains a possibility.
is that it would have the same basis which would be DNA for
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3.5 billion years ago. The Earth was formed 4.6 billion
years ago and was probably too hot for about the first half
planet.
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et cetera.
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water, but there may be ice in the craters at the north and
far, again, as the Earth from the Sun and so receives half
Mars had a warm wet period during which life might have
fairly high.
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as a source of oxygen.
The Moon and Mars are the most suitable sites for
too hot, while Jupiter and Saturn are gas giants with no
solid surface.
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larger and more massive than other moons and has a dense
atmosphere.
methane.
where the distance from the stars is the right range for
I mean over the next 200 to 500 years. The human race has
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gone before.
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