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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
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No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world.
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