Comedy is good at analysing and dealing with evil because it doesn't present it as evil but a collection of banalities.

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• David Ferry:

  I don't think in terms of projects.

• David Ferry:

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• David Grinspoon:

  We don't know that Venus had oceans, but there's every reason to believe it did.

• David Grinspoon:

  I'm a strong advocate of new missions to Venus.

• David Grinspoon:

  As a young planet, Venus was losing hydrogen rapidly to space. The oceans boiled off, and after som

• David Grinspoon:

  Earth is going to lose its oceans in the future, just as Venus did in the past. How long planets re

• David Grinspoon:

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• David Grinspoon:

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• David Grinspoon:

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