Spaceship Earth can be self-sufficient in all resources
What will be an ideal response?
For all of human history this has been true, but only if we neglect the input of
energy from the Sun! That is not really self-sufficiency. In the future, off-Earth resources
will become more important.
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A. 0.42 kg B. 0.34 kg C. 0.50 kg D. 0.59 kg E. 0.68 kg
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a. 1/3 b. 1/9 c. 3 d. 9
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