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Barney Oliver Quotes
Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots. - Barney Oliver Quotes
Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, its a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient. - Barney Oliver Quotes
If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be. - Barney Oliver Quotes
In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory. - Barney Oliver Quotes
It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance. - Barney Oliver Quotes
No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world. - Barney Oliver Quotes
Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter. - Barney Oliver Quotes
The essential point we want to make is that interstellar travel, far from being easy, presents problems for which we do not have valid solutions. - Barney Oliver Quotes
The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light. - Barney Oliver Quotes
The known methods of producing anti-protons require, for their formation, millions of times the energy they will release when they contact protons. - Barney Oliver Quotes
The main problem here is not that we dont known how to contain antimatter, which we dont; its that we dont know how to obtain it - in quantity. - Barney Oliver Quotes
The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars. - Barney Oliver Quotes
This allows us to believe that some-day, when our technology is up to the task, the cost of interstellar travel will drop dramatically. - Barney Oliver Quotes
Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars. - Barney Oliver Quotes
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