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10 Post author: Spectral_Dragon 30 May 2012 10:24PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 31 May 2012 05:25:45AM 1 point [-]

The novels Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson bring up this question and proposes an answer, offered here in a simple rot13.com cypher for those who haven't read the books yet.

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Comment author: billswift 31 May 2012 04:32:27PM *  0 points [-]

That is not exactly a new idea, many stories have used that. And Harry Stine's A Matter of Metalaw had that as an automatic consequence of the immortality treatments.