"There are extraordinary traces of ancient habitation in the land here and the elements haven't changed.
The rover is controlled from "Earth" right now – there's a person in a tent next to the rover – but in the future these ACME robots could work like Doozers on planets far away, preparing our Bucky Domes for habitation and installing Chick-Fil-A from here to the Betelgeuse nebula.
"We're not saying radiation is good for animals, but we're saying human habitation is worse," Smith told reporters at a press briefing here on Friday.
In fact, the Chamorro people first settled here 1,300 years ago, and archaeologists have uncovered evidence of human habitation dating back more than two millennia.
If human habitation on this continent were 24 hours, White Australia has been here for five minutes.
I doubt much has changed around here since it was published in 1906, but there are habitations: farms, barns, thatched cottages and a string of tiny villages (Monkton Wyld, Wootton Fitzpaine, Shave Cross – they all sound like characters from a Thomas Hardy novel).
The mountains here are so forbidding that for some miles the sole attempt at human habitation is provided by Dolwyddelan Castle, only the keep of which remains.
He couldn't have found more virgin territory: aside from the remnants of a late 19th-century fishing shack, and ashes from the locals who have long come here to cook out and swim, the island bears no sign of human habitation.
The radiation level here jumps from 15 microroentgens per hour to 43, no longer safe for human habitation (25 to 30 is considered the limit).
Here, he is signed up by his old professor (Michael Caine) to join a space voyage in search of new habitations for humanity.
