Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.
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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.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.
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No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world.
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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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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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Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
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