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lation in order to better expand our knowledge of our- selves and to improve our perspective about the planet earth and its inhabitants. I have elsewhere (Reference 5) listed ten reasons for visiting earth; some facetious but none totally impossible or implausible. Let us first examine the question of the planet earth compared to the other planets in this solar system. Earth has a number of unique features. This earth is much denser than all of the other planets (except Pluto) and therefore...