Author: Barney Oliver

Quotes

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.

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

Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.

Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.

- Barney Oliver

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.

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.

- Barney Oliver

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.

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.

- Barney Oliver

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