Facts about Barney Oliver

Occup.	Scientist
Born	March 31, 1909
Died	November 23, 1995
Aged	86 years

Summary

Barney Oliver was a famous Scientist, who lived between March 31, 1909 and November 23, 1995. He/she became 86 years old.

Zodiac:

He/she is born under the zodiac aries, who is known for Active, Demanding, Determined, Effective, Ambitious. Our collection contains 10 quotes who is written / told by Barney.

10 Famous quotes by Barney Oliver

"The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars"

Barney Oliver

"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

"Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient"

Barney Oliver

"No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world"

Barney Oliver

"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

"In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory"

Barney Oliver

"Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter"

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"

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"

Barney Oliver

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

Barney Oliver