Interstellar travel: The wait calculation and the incentive trap of progress

JBIS - Journal of the British Interplanetary Society

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 239-246

  Kennedy, Andrew ^a  

^a Chronolith Project   (Spain)

Author keywords

Expansion of civilisation; Incentive trap; Interstellar travel; The wait calculation

Indexed keywords

FUTURE TECHNOLOGIES; INCENTIVE TRAP; INTERSTELLAR EXPLORATION; INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL; NEGATIVE INCENTIVES; PAPER ANALYSIS; QUANTUM LEAPS;

SPACE FLIGHT;

EID: 33745169353     PISSN: 0007084X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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