Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
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. - Bernard M. 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.
- Bernard M. 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 … - Bernard M. 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 …
Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots. - Bernard M. Oliver
Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.
Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter. - Bernard M. Oliver
Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.
The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars. - Bernard M. Oliver
The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars.
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. - Bernard M. 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.
In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory. - Bernard M. Oliver
In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient. - Bernard M. Oliver
No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world. - Bernard M. Oliver
No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world.
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