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Type: Scientist Quotes Date of Birth: March 31, 1909 Date of Death: November 23, 1995 Find on Amazon: Barney Oliver Related Authors: Thomas Huxley Jean Rostand Alexis de Tocqueville Isaac Asimov Margaret Mead Paul Nurse Kenneth G. Wilson Peter D. Mitchell |
Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.
Barney Oliver Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient. Barney Oliver 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 In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory. Barney Oliver 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 No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world. Barney Oliver Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter. Barney Oliver 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 The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars. Barney Oliver 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 |
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