Barney Oliver Quotes

"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
(Related: Science, Destiny, Earth, Fiction, Moon, Stars, Years)

"The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars."
- Barney Oliver
(Related: Space, Stars, Sun)

"Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter."
- Barney Oliver
(Related: Energy, Present, World)

"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
(Related: Society, Travel, Chance, Pity)

"In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory."
- Barney Oliver
(Related: Earth, Past)

"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
(Related: Travel, Time, Energy, Motive, Obvious)

"Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient."
- Barney Oliver
(Related: Energy)

"Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots."
- Barney Oliver
(Related: Army, Race, Self)

"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."
- Barney Oliver
(Related: Energy, Light)