Top 6 Gerard K. O'Neill Quotes
#1. Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify.
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#2. Is a planetary surface the right place for an expanding technological civilization?
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#3. Yet all the projections confirm that SSPS plants built at a space manufacturing facility out of nonterrestrial materials should be able to undersell electricity produced by any alternative source here on Earth.
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#4. More important than the material issue ... the opening of a new, high frontier will challenge the best that is in us ... the new lands waiting to be built in space will give us new freedom to search for better governments, social systems, and ways of life.
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#5. Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with ...
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#6. We should ask, critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the best site for a growing advancing industrial society is Earth, the Moon, Mars, some other planet, or somewhere else entirely. Surprisingly, the answer will be inescapable - the best site is somewhere else entirely.
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