World Energy Quotes by Bernard M. Oliver

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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,…
• The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars.
• No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world.
• Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.
• Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.
• Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
• In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
• It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact,…
• The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its…

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