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Like the ocean, land plants hold about three times as much carbon as the atmosphere. While oceans take many centuries to exchange this mass with the air, flora take only a few years.

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DNA sequencing opens vast ethical issues. We shall be able to know who has defective genes. What will it mean when we can be sure we’re not all born equal? Worked out, the implications will scare a lot of people. Insurance companies will not want to cover those with a genetic predisposition to illness, for example. Here lurk myriad lawsuits.

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Congress came to see NASA primarily as a jobs program, not an exploratory agency.

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April 30, 2024

Congress came to see NASA primarily as a jobs program, not an exploratory agency.

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April 30, 2024

DNA sequencing opens vast ethical issues. We shall be able to know who has defective genes. What will it mean when we can be sure we’re not all born equal? Worked out, the implications will scare a lot of people. Insurance companies will not want to cover those with a genetic predisposition to illness, for example. Here lurk myriad lawsuits.

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