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While most high school freshmen obsessed over girls, football and MTV, [Alex Moore] found his passion on another planet. At age 14, the Canonsburg native was inspired by the novel Red Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson, to launch redcolony.com, a Web site dedicated to the colonization of Mars. With the help of two friends, Moore the built the site into one of the Internet's most comprehensive Mars colonization sites, with 82 articles, some written by NASA scientists, on establishing a home for humanity on the Red Planet. Now a freshman at the University of Pittsburgh, Moore still spends an hour each day updating the site.
Usually, it's people writing science papers for high school. They are usually interested in the science-fiction aspects of it. Will there be galactic battles between people on Earth and people on Mars? Will Mars offer new opportunities for government? Can we do things rightly that we screwed up on Earth? Can we start fresh with a new planet?What's cool is when we get an article from someone at NASA, a renegade, breakaway scientist who wants to share his own ideas. Most people who work at NASA want to go to Mars. Well, I should say everyone who works at NASA wants to go to Mars. Everyone talks about it around the water cooler. Our Web site gives people a chance to share their expertise in these fields.See the full content of this document
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While most high school freshmen obsessed over girls, football and MTV, ALEX MOORE found his passion on another planet. At age 14, the Canonsburg native was inspired by the novel Red Mars, by Kim Stanley ...
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