Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.
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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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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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The known methods of producing anti-protons require, for their formation, millions of times the energy they will release when they contact protons.
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