colonization
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While NASA’s goal is to establish more of an outpost dedicated to expanding the reach of the U.S., others are planning something straight out of the works of Andy Weir or Robert Heinlein: colonization.
From MarketWatch
Geronimo’s people, who refused to submit to colonization, fought these wars on two fronts: against the U.S. in the north and Mexico in the south.
Rising temperatures and shifting climate zones would force species out of some areas while opening new habitats elsewhere, triggering faster local extinctions and rapid colonization.
From Science Daily
Both significantly accelerated tumor growth and increased metastatic colonization in independent cell line models.
From Science Daily
In 1823, President James Monroe declared the Western Hemisphere off limits to European colonization.
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