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 known methods of producing anti-protons require, for their formation, millions of times the energy they will release when they contact protons.Barney Oliver
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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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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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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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 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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