This allows us to believe that some-day, when our technology is up to the task, the cost of interstellar travel will drop dramatically.
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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.Barney Oliver
The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars.
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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.
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No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world.
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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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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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