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WASHINGTON (AFP) – Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking called Monday for a new era of space conquest akin to Christopher Columbus’ discovery of the new world, in a speech on the 50th anniversary of NASA space agency.

“In a way, the situation is like Europe before 1492. People might well have argued that it was a waste of money to send Columbus on a wild goose chase,” the British scientist said at Georgetown Washington University.
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