Colonization of Mars
description: the hypothetical human habitation and terraforming of the planet Mars
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Case for Mars
by Robert Zubrin · 27 Jun 2011 · 437pp · 126,860 words
Space Age 3 Finding a Plan 4 Getting There 5 Killing the Dragons, Avoiding the Sirens 6 Exploring Mars 7 Building the Base on Mars 8 The Colonization of Mars 9 Terrraforming Mars 10 The View from Earth Epilogue: The Significance of the Martian Frontier Special Addendum Glossary Notes References Index FOREWORD
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. For that reason we shall discuss them further in some of the later chapters of this book that deal with the more futuristic aspects of Mars colonization. However, just as Columbus would not have traveled very far if he had held his expedition on the dock until an iron steamship or a
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, the prospect is marginal for supporting a large scientific population at a permanent Mars base and utterly hopeless as the basis for a program of Mars colonization. An early task, then, both necessary for the base’s own self-development and for all that will follows op the development of large habitable
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longer before they leave, the population of the base will come to resemble a town—and will actually grow into one. The colonization of Mars will then begin. 8: THE COLONIZATION OF MARS This proposition being made publike and coming to the scanning of all, it raised many variable opinions amongst men, and caused
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resource utilization that could someday make Mars the home for millions. We thus come to the crux of the matter: the settlement phase. Can Mars really be colonized? From the technical point of view, there is little doubt that we can eventually do just about anything we want on Mars, including, as
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with enough work, it can be made so again. The advantages to Mars settlers of a terraformed world are so obvious, that put simply, if Mars is colonized, then it will also be terraformed. Therefore, ultimately, the feasibility or lack thereof of terraforming Mars is fundamentally a corollary to the economic viability
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reasons for the utter impracticality of the European settlement of North America and Australia. It is certainly true that the technological and economic problems facing Mars colonization in the twenty-first century are vastly different in detail than those that had to be overcome in the colonization of the New World. Nevertheless
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years from now, let alone fifty or one hundred. Nevertheless, in this chapter I shall endeavor to show you how and why the economics of Mars colonization can be made to work, and why the success of this colonization effort will ultimately be the keystone to human expansion throughout our planetary system
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transport will greatly increase their price. What can Mars possibly export to Earth in return? It is this question that has caused many to deem Mars colonization intractable, or at least inferior in prospect to the Moon. For example, much has been made of the fact that the Moon has indigenous supplies
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the Spice Islands also supported British trade in the East Indies during the nineteenth century. POPULATING MARS The difficulty of interplanetary travel may make Mars colonization seem visionary. However, colonization is, by definition, a one-way trip, and it is this fact that makes it possible to transport the large numbers of people
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drop a lot lower than this. Let us therefore examine an alternative model to see how low it is likely to drop. FIGURE 8.2 Colonization of Mars compared to North America. Analysis assumes 100 immigrants per year starting in 2010, increasing at a 2 percent annual rate, 50/50 male/female
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society’s inherent tendency towards stagnation. This process of rejuvenation, as we’ll discuss in later chapters, will ultimately be the greatest benefit that the colonization of Mars will offer Earth. And it will be those terrestrial societies who have the closest social, cultural, linguistic, and economic links with the Martians who
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a revolution in European naval architecture, so will the establishment of a Mars base summon new types of space propulsion systems that will make the colonization of Mars commercially feasible. These new systems, vastly more capable than anything we have today, have been on the drawing boards for some time, waiting for
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logistics demands of a developing Mars settlement, which will call for the cheap delivery of large amounts of cargo to orbit, and beyond. The colonization of Mars is thus central to the development of the technologies that will give us cheap access to space. ELECTRIC PROPULSION The key metric of a rocket
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Clinton, Bill, 307, 315, 323 CNES (French space agency), 37 Cobalt, 226 “Code Z” organization, 73 Collins, Mike, 45 Colonial settlement, 219, 232, 233 Colonization of Mars, a filepos=0000446159 >172, 217–246 advanced interplanetary transportation, 224, 240–246 beginnings of, 215 historical analogies, 239–240 interplanetary commerce, 223–231 populating, 231
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plans, 95–101 advanced technology options, 101–109 artificial gravity systems, 122–126 base-building. See Base-building period birth of, 51–69 colonization. See Colonization of Mars conjunction-class mission, 79–83, 90 crew, 7–8, 63, 85–87, 105, 126–129 defined, 2–3 direct launch, 87–91 dust storms
The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
by Christian Davenport · 20 Mar 2018 · 390pp · 108,171 words
like a faulty computer. The atmosphere on Venus is too acidic. Mercury is too close to the sun. The best bet, he thought, is to colonize Mars. One night he was driving home from a party on Long Island to New York City with his college friend Adeo Ressi. It was late
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orphaned dreams it had spawned. Outside was the man who would create a new future—cheap, reliable spaceflight, all with the goal of one day colonizing Mars—a promise as improbable as the young eccentric making it. He wasn’t just selling his rocket, but what it represented—the crazy idea that
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adventure ever, even greater than the quixotic searches for the Lost City. Although there was, as he said, the “defensive reason” to go to Mars to colonize another planet—so that humanity would have another place to go in case anything happened to Earth—this was not what inspired him to go
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eye on one possible tenant: an eccentric billionaire who had started a space company from scratch with absolutely no experience with rockets, but talked about colonizing Mars—a wild card named Elon Musk, who was now on an improbable, but epic, roll. THE FALCON 9 had flown successfully. And SpaceX was moving
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cargo. It was talking about building an even bigger rocket, called the Falcon Heavy, which would allow it to pursue Musk’s original goal of colonizing Mars. Musk even put a price tag on it, telling the BBC, “Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket—half a million dollars. It can be
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all over the world for this long-awaited speech, titled “Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species,” in which Musk would, finally, lay out his plan to colonize Mars. In the months leading up to Guadalajara, he disclosed some of the details, telling the Washington Post that he intended to build a transportation system
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that was SpaceX’s top priority, and had pushed back its timeline for Mars to focus on flying crews to the station. But as if colonizing Mars weren’t enough, he was also planning to expand the company’s already outsize ambitions, and rewrite its future. In early 2017, he made a
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–92 risks and excitement of, 121–122 Scaled Composites plan, 85–86 See also Ansari X Prize; SpaceShipOne Manning, Rob, 39–40 Mariner missions, 223 Mars colonization and missions, 7 Bezos’s commitment to travel, 258–259 dangers, 121 Falcon 9’s success as step towards, 229 landings, 3 Muskଁs agenda
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Perot, H. Ross, 73 Personal Spaceflight Federation, 117–119, 125–126 Pettit, Don, 175 Pike, John, 137 Pioneer missions, 223 Pitt, Brad, 112 planetary colonization. See Mars colonization and missions; moon colonization and missions Planetary Defense Coordination Office, 37 Planetary Resources, 249 poker, 27–30 Polk, Kevin, 70–71 Poore, Steve, 192
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exploration and colonization as human survival, 32 asteroid habitation, 71 Blue Origin startup, 74 O’Neill’s proposal for, 67–71 See also asteroids; Mars colonization and missions; moon colonization and missions Space Launch Initiative, 33 Space Launch System (SLS), 244–245 space memorabilia, 251–252 space race, early, 235 ‘space’ versus ‘orbit
More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity
by Adam Becker · 14 Jun 2025 · 381pp · 119,533 words
need in order to maintain (not necessarily to extend) our current level of technological civilization?’” Stross had written on the subject in 2010, concluding that “colonizing Mars might well be practical, but only if we can start out by plonking a hundred million people down there.” “If anything, that’s on the
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.com/the-sciences/no-seriously-elon-you-cant-just-nuke-mars-we-asked. 74 George Dvorsky, “Humans Will Never Colonize Mars,” Gizmodo, July 30, 2019, https://gizmodo.com/humans-will-never-colonize-mars-1836316222; Shannon Stirone, “Mars Is a Hellhole,” The Atlantic, February 26, 2021, www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/02/mars-is-no
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-T-extinction. 83 Peter Brannen (@PeterBrannen1), Twitter (now X), December 10, 2018, https://x.com/PeterBrannen1/status/1072174222967898112. 84 Ibid. 85 Dvorsky, “Humans Will Never Colonize Mars.” 86 This is the speed that the Apollo missions reached on hitting Earth’s atmosphere: W. David Woods, Kenneth D. MacTaggart, and Frank O’Brien
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), July 12, 2021, https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1414782972474048516. 95 Walkowicz interview. 96 Ibid. 97 Sarah Knapton, “Human Race Is Doomed if We Do Not Colonise the Moon and Mars, Says Stephen Hawking,” Telegraph, June 20, 2017, www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/06/20/human-race-doomed-do-not
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-colonise-moon-mars-says-stephen-hawking/. 98 Hall, Flying Car, 107. 99 Andreessen, “Manifesto” (emphasis his). 100 Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, “The Futurist Manifesto,” 1909, Obelisk, accessed June 13,
The Case for Space: How the Revolution in Spaceflight Opens Up a Future of Limitless Possibility
by Robert Zubrin · 30 Apr 2019 · 452pp · 126,310 words
Musk revealed to great fanfare his company's plans for an Interplanetary Transport System (ITS).6 According to Musk, the ITS would enable the colonization of Mars by the rapid delivery of a million people in groups of a hundred passengers per flight, as well as large-scale human exploration missions to
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design of the BFS. Think about it. All the best, Robert Let's hope he listens. COLONIZING MARS We hold it in our power to begin the world anew. —Thomas Paine, 1776 The question of colonizing Mars is not fundamentally one of transportation. If we were to use the Starship or a comparable vehicle
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comparable to that which the British colonized North America in the 1600s—and at much lower expense relative to our resources. No, the problem of colonizing Mars is not moving large numbers to the Red Planet, but the ability to transform Martian materials into resources to support an expanding population once they
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Martian resources to allow humans to be self-sufficient on the Red Planet, such transportation systems will make it possible for the actual colonization and economic development of Mars to begin. (See plate 8.) While the initial exploration and base-building activities on Mars can be supported by government or corporate largesse
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most a few, new branches of human civilization. But the technologies for resource utilization, labor saving, space transportation, and energy production developed for the colonization of Mars will open the way to the settlement of the asteroids, which will force both the technologies and the aptitudes that created them even further. This
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greater trans-Mars throw capability than a Saturn V rocket. Image courtesy of SpaceX. Plate 7. The Interplanetary Transport System (ITS), SpaceX's vision for colonizing Mars. The ITS was subsequently renamed the Big Falcon Rocket or BFR, then Starship. Image courtesy of SpaceX. Plate 8. In the course of things, children
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/elon-musks-mars-mission-revealed-spacexs-interplanetary-transport-system (accessed October 14, 2018). 7. Robert Zubrin, “Colonizing Mars: A Critique of the SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System,” New Atlantis, October 21, 2016, https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/colonizing-mars (accessed October 14, 2018). 8. Adam Baidawi and Kenneth Chang, “Elon Musk's Mars Vision: A
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mariculture, 227, 229–30, 277, 317 Markusic, Tom, 38 Mars, 181 asteroids crossing orbit of, 126–27 chemistry for space settlers of, 146–50 colonization of (Mars Direct program), plate 7, 101–23 commercial benefits of, 114–17 “Dragon Direct” plan, 108 habitation module, plate 5 leading to a human asteroid mission
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, 105–106, 109, 113–15, 117, 118, 120, 146–49, 218, 222, 297 “young Mars,” 218–19 Mars Desert Research Station, 30 Mars Direct. See Mars: colonization of Mars Express Orbiter (European Space Agency), 13, 106, 148 Mars Global Surveyor (MSG) (NASA), 105 “Mars Gravity” mission, 31 Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA
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, Tom, 333 microlaunchers, 37–38 comparison of space launch systems, 36 microsailcraft, 259–60 Microsoft, 29, 177 microwave power, 57, 58 use of in colonization of Mars, 113 use of in colonization of the moon, 69, 78–79, 79 military uses of space power and deterring a war, 60–66 Milky Way
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
by Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith · 6 Nov 2023 · 490pp · 132,502 words
Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index _145344139_ Introduction A Homesteader’s Guide to the Red Planet? It is no longer a question of if we will colonise the Moon and Mars, but when. —Tim Peake, astronaut Wherever you are on this planet, you’ve recently given some thought to leaving it. Space is looking
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this merely a personal choice? We think, at the end of everything, the short answer here is no. Many of the most persistent voices for Mars colonization are philosophically libertarian—they think Earth is too bureaucratic, too rule bound, too oppressive. But even ardent libertarians don’t favor an increase in private
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, Robert. The Case for Space: How the Revolution in Spaceflight Opens Up a Future of Limitless Possibility. Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 2019. ———.”The Economic Viability of Mars Colonization.” In Deep Space Commodities: Exploration, Production and Trading, edited by Tom James, 159–80. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007
A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America
by Tony Horwitz · 1 Jan 2008
, when Queen Elizabeth ascended the throne, the notion that England was to rule North America would have seem as farfetched as present-day New Zealand colonizing Mars. Elizabeth’s island realm of only three million people didn’t yet include Scotland, much less a global empire. England had just lost Calais, its
4th Rock From the Sun: The Story of Mars
by Nicky Jenner · 5 Apr 2017 · 294pp · 87,986 words
Mars generation – today’s teenagers and young adults, who missed all the Apollo excitement and can reasonably expect to see humans land on, and perhaps colonise, Mars within their lifetimes – is relatively young, the age of Mars has been around for longer than you might think. Mars’s rise to pop culture
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offers an accessible and somewhat-known-but-somewhat-mysterious setting for all kinds of imaginative storylines. For this reason, video games love using Mars-related maps or themes – colonisation, space travel, dying and dystopian societies, scientific research settlements gone wrong, cosmic war, aliens, the unknown. First-person shooter game Red Faction features
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Mars action. Kim Stanley Robinson’s more recent Mars trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars) is incredibly comprehensive, chronicling two centuries of colonisation and terraformation of Mars. The trilogy creates an entirely new universe and has been called the ‘gold standard’ of realistic science-fiction writing (in recent years, The Martian
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Mars knowing that they will never return, or that they are highly likely to injure themselves fatally or die young due to radiation exposure. If Mars colonisers become ill or show signs of sickness, we may not be entirely sure whether they are allowed to come back to Earth; do we know
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on Mars is enough to outweigh any possible dangers or misgivings. Mars One initially claimed to receive over 200,000 applications for its proposal to colonise Mars … but then admitted that only 4,227 candidates were willing to pay the admin fee. This number has since been whittled down to just 100
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realm. Terraforming an entire planet would be so prohibitively expensive that it hardly bears considering – especially as it isn’t a necessary condition for our colonisation of Mars, and it could take hundreds of thousands of years even if we began today. However, it’s quite fun – and scientifically useful – to imagine
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terraformed, with reds and oranges giving way to familiar blues and greens. Such a mission architecture could do something far more significant than helping us colonise Mars. If we sent humans to Mars and built an increasingly large colony there, the colonisers would begin to slowly adapt to Mars’s gravity and
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’ (Mars-form) humans! Petranek’s proposal veers firmly away from science fact and plunges deep into science fiction. He has suggested that we could make colonising Mars easier by genetically modifying our offspring, so that subsequent generations can handle higher levels of carbon dioxide and radiation, lower gravity and surface pressures, thinner
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enough to tidally lock Mars on any timescale, so will drift quietly and unobtrusively out into space. Given this turbulent future, is it really worth colonising Mars? For many, despite the fearsome Great Galactic Ghoul and the many challenges of getting there, despite the likelihood of losing vision and muscle mass and
Augmented: Life in the Smart Lane
by Brett King · 5 May 2016 · 385pp · 111,113 words
Hab produced by Electronic Arts and Amazon. The series is basically a fluff piece for NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) on the colonisation of Mars, which is currently a subject of debate across the European Union and in the US Congress in respect to funding proposals. There are still those
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when it came to Mars, Musk was just in too much of a hurry for the engineers at NASA, having staked his legacy on making Mars colonisation affordable for the average earthling. While SpaceX had succeeded thus far, NASA was betting that the commercial organisation was going to have some major setbacks
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between $160 million and $180 million. Musk put that money into an even more challenging idea: spaceflight. More specifically, he believed that human beings should colonize Mars. He would start with rockets, picking up the work that NASA was no longer funding with the imagination it had in his youth. Lucrative government
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development of a fully autonomous robotic factory capable of reproducing itself. But planting such a factory on a distant planet is a different story. The colonisation of Mars, for instance, could benefit from self-reproducing robots designed to prepare the planet for human habitation. Back in the 1970s, Freeman Dyson proposed using
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36–8 Magdalenian period 21 magnetoencephalography (MEG) 159–60, 161 Maillardet, Henri 218 Marconi, Guglielmo 239 Maria (robot in Metropolis) 50, 51 Marlowe, Christopher 63 Mars colonisation 291 Marx, Groucho 205 materialism versus idealism 92–4 mathematical dematerialisation view 92 mathematical foundations of the universe 103–6 mathematical reflexivity 186–7 mathematics
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Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of Energy Independence
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Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet
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WEconomy: You Can Find Meaning, Make a Living, and Change the World
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Limitless: The Federal Reserve Takes on a New Age of Crisis
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Amazon: How the World’s Most Relentless Retailer Will Continue to Revolutionize Commerce
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Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice From the Best in the World
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Prime Obsession:: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
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World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
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The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America—and How to Undo His Legacy
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Collision Course: Carlos Ghosn and the Culture Wars That Upended an Auto Empire
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The Self-Made Billionaire Effect: How Extreme Producers Create Massive Value
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Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles--And All of US
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