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Barney Oliver

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Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.


— Barney Oliver


#army #expect #expense #great #i

Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.


— Barney Oliver


#energy #inefficient #method #source #storing

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


#colonization #demanding #far #figures #indicate

In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.


— Barney Oliver


#domestic #earth #expand #exploit #foreign

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


#chance #contact #elected #fair #fair chance

No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world.


— Barney Oliver


#deny #excitement #visiting #world

Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.


— Barney Oliver


#annihilation #annual #consumption #energy #energy consumption

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


#energy #factor #flight #fraction #ignored

The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars.


— Barney Oliver


#group #planets #separate #space #stars

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


#earth #expand #fiction #human #mars






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