Earth experiment could buy precious time


	Earth experiment could buy precious time

vk2yoc

9-2-2009 8:01 AM

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global warming, planetary engineering, science

vk2yoc says:

People are coming up with possible solutions, but is there time? Checkout the website, very interesting.

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