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"The reason we're building SpaceX is to be able to make life multi-planetary."
"You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet."
"In the space of three weeks, I met a fair bunch of the guys who were just starting those little programmers' co-ops, and everybody was talking about starting businesses."
"Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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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