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Asteroids May Wipe Us Out, But Might Also Let Us Expand Beyond Earth
The New York Times hosts an asteroid discussion, including the upside: StrangeHorizons.com's Susan Marie Groppi points out how often asteroids save our space-opera heroes. And astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell advocates expanding outwards by mining near-Earth objects.
