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Astrobiology Funding. Imagine that you were a member of Congress and your job included deciding how much government funding to allocate to research in different areas of science. How would the amount you allotted to the search for life in the universe compare to the amount you allotted to research in other areas of astron-omy and planetary science? Why?
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