:: Actually, both life extension and space colonization are irrelevant to
: the conclusion that either humans will curb their population growth or we
: will get it curbed for us. If you take our current exponential
: population growth rate and project it a few thousand years in the future,
: you will eventually get a solid mass of human bodies expanding outward in
: all directions at the speed of light. Life extension would make that
: point come just a little sooner. Obviously, long before then growth
: rates would have been curbed, by fair means or foul. Space colonization
: would just slightly delay the point at which the rate would have to drop.
:: Ken Wolfe
:
Ken.
I think you miss the point slightly <smile>. It's not for living room
we need to colonize off planet - but to ensure that there are
people living *somewhere* in a thousand years. Colonization will *never*
(in, of course, MHO) be fast enough to save us from Standing Room Only
in a few years time.
"We're all going to get a little hungrier, by and by." and I don't
see a way to avoid that.
Mike.
--
Mike Lacey of Hero Drinks Group (Uk) ltd (my opinions - not Hero's)
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