by praising the efficiency of modern-day Internet research doesn't relate to anything regarding "Choreographers of Matter, Life, and Intelligence" when it comes to argumentation. Comparing scientific knowledge to grains of sand on a beach is poetic, but it is no argument either. Proving names of modern scientists and their contributions also shows nothing but the scientists and their contributions themselves. It doesn't work as proof for <em>"an impending scientific revolution".</em>
What Michio Kaku does, as the good scientist that he is, is to show evidence. And he does so "by providing quantitative proof of recent scientific progress"
The answer is C. an unoccupied territory.
Due to its harsh climate, Antartica is non-ecumene, meaning it is uninhabited by people. Although it is unoccupied, several countries signed a treaty, each country holding territorial claims to different parts of Antarctica, some territories overlapping.
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