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Inside historic Bell Labs, where tomorrow's tech is born

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Elon Musk's Mars metropolis: Insane but not impossible
SpaceX has advanced a vision of a city built on Mars as soon as the 2060s. A galaxy of technical, ethical, legal and other questions need to be answered first.
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