Buzz Aldrin

Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and wet world into a barren landscape. By exploring and understanding Mars, we may gain key insights into the past and future of our own world.

American Astronaut

Nick Sagan

Shrapnel' is based on the idea that we do colonize the solar system, but it's not clean and optimistic. The haves are putting the screws to the have-nots. The story is about the last stand of the last free colony in the solar system.

American Novelist

Hervey Allen

In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized.

American Author

Freeman Dyson

It's not going to be just humans colonizing space, it's going to be life moving out from the Earth, moving it into its kingdom. And the kingdom of life, of course, is going to be the universe.

American Physicist

Josh Holloway

It's the oldest story in human existence. We've colonized someone or been colonized throughout human history. It's amazing how fast we comply and try to get a life out of that.

American Actor

Hailemariam Desalegn

We have never been colonized, because of our attitude... We have the confidence, the moral authority, and our people are also enough to tell us what they want to tell us.

Ethiopian Politician

Lorraine Toussaint

I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.

Trinidadian Actress

Ian Hacking

It is a general truth that students of language in every era try to colonize some or all of the other human sciences.

Canadian Philosopher

Tahar Ben Jelloun

I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.

French Poet

Stephen Hawking

I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.

English Physicist

Understand the historical background since 'colonize' often refers to a period of European expansion and exploitation.

Historical Context

'Colonize' implies a power imbalance where the colonizer dominates the area or people.

Power Dynamics

Be careful with contemporary usage as it can be sensitive or offensive due to historical associations.

Modern Usage Caution

In biology, 'colonize' is neutral, describing how organisms spread without the suggestion of harm.

Biological Spread

When used in biology, the term focuses on the action of non-human organisms, like bacteria or plants.

Non-Human Focus

'Colonize' in ecology often describes a natural process of species spreading to new habitats.

Ecological Context

Unlike historical usage, 'colonize' in ecology doesn't necessarily imply negative consequences.

Neutral Implications

In ecology, 'colonize' suggests the species is living in an area for the first time.

First-Time Occurrence

 is by using antifungals in things like shampoos, applied directly to the scalp, to kill Malassezia. For those who experience dandruff, it usually comes and goes as sebum secretions vary throughout one's lifetime due to hormonal changes. But despite the fact that Malassezia colonize everyone to a similar extent,

What causes dandruff,...

 synergistic life support living sea sculptures using bio Rock mineral accretion technology by running low voltage current through seawater the limestone minerals abundant in the ocean deposit onto metal and the resulting surface is a natural substrate for corals to settle on and colonize it

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 Most plants have a symbiotic relationship with fungi, which colonize the plants' roots and help them absorb water and nutrients. These fungal filaments form extensive networks that can connect separate plants, creating an underground super highway for chemical messages.

Can plants talk to each...

 of all five owls the little owl is the most adventurous over the last century and a half they've colonized nearly all the english lowlands and still seem to be doing well in contrast the barn owl has become increasingly rare over the last 50 years

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 or fleets of colonizing spaceships or glorious works of art that fill the night sky. At the very least, you'd think they'd be revealing their presence, deliberately or otherwise, through electromagnetic signals of one kind or another.

Questions No One Knows...

 A civilization from any one of millions of galaxies could have colonized our galaxy. Seems far-fetched? Maybe it is, but wouldn't aliens engage in some recognizable activity -- put worldlets around a star to capture free sunlight,

Where are all the...

 using their incredible swarm intelligence fire ants are taking on the world as well as invading america they have started to colonize australia with global warming they are likely to invade europe as far north as southern

Ants Ingenious Survival...

 improve immune function, and can help prevent inflammation, which reduces the risk of cancer. And the more fiber you ingest, the more fiber-digesting bacteria colonize your gut.

How the food you eat...

 weaver ants have colonized much of this man-made landscape hundreds of them work as a team to build their home out of leaves protecting them against the elements

Ants Use Grubs as Glue...

 survive the next hundred years let alone a thousand that is imperative we avoid it out into the blackness of space to colonize new worlds across the cosmos

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