
What is the minimum number of working individuals that would be necessary for the survival of a settlement on Mars?
Howard Ritter,
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Perrysburg, Ohio, US

Why aren’t we equally capable with our left and right sides? Wouldn’t this have given us a survival advantage?
Celine Szoges Schwartz,
Thornbury, Ontario, Canada
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