In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resourc… — Barney Oliver

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

Barney OliverScientist · 1909 – 1995

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The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven. — Benjamin Disraeli
I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past? — Harold Pinter
Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history. — Jacques Yves Cousteau
Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter. — 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
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