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"The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn't been reusable."
"What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space."
"The future is vastly more exciting and interesting if we're a spacefaring civilization and a multi-planet species."
"Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that."
"My partner and I are looking at several locations on Park Avenue South and Midtown for a new restaurant space."
"We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees."
"I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I've got kids and responsibilities, so I can't be my own test pilot. That wouldn't be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it's a sensible thing to do."
"I would have taken whatever hand I was dealt. Space was it."
"Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again."
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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."
"In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory."
"Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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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