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Many Billions Of Years Will Elapse Before The Smallest, Youngest Stars Complete Their Nuclear Burning And Shrink Into White Dwarfs. But With Slow, Agonizing Finality Perpetual Night Will Surely Fall.

In Time, [a Martian] Colony Would Grow To The Point Of Being Self- Sustaining. When This Stage Was Reached, Humanity Would Have A Precious Insurance Policy Against Catastrophe At Home. During The Next Millennium There Is A Significant Chance That Civilization On Earth Will Be Destroyed By An Asteroid, A Killer Plague Or A Global War. A Martian Colony Could Keep The Flame Of Civilization And Culture Alive Until Earth Could Be Reverse-colonized From Mars.

Although The Elusive 'cure' May Be A Distant Dream, Understanding The True Nature Of Cancer Will Enable It To Be Better Controlled And Less Menacing.

It's Only Fashion That Has Said The Pendulum Has Swung From Extreme Skepticism About Extraterrestrial Life To Extreme Credulity. The Truth Is Somewhere In Between.

Mathematics Is Universal. It's Discovered By Human Beings, But The Rules Of Mathematics Are The Same Throughout The Universe And The Laws Of The Universe.