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"In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory."
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"We were on the dark side of the Earth when we started to see outside the window this soft pink glow, which is a lot of little angry ions out there going very fast. We were hitting them very fast."
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"It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth."
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"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."
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"It's only when you're flying above it that you realize how incredible the Earth really is."
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"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
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"The most interesting thing was looking out the window and taking photographs of different places on Earth."
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"NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station."
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"No one on this Earth knows how old I am."
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"Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems."
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"It's my job, it's what I do, it's what I'm on earth to do and it's who I am."
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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."
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"Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter."
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"No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world."
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"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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"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."
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"In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory."
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"Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient."
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"Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots."
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"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."
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"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."
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