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There are around ~400k people born every single day. If we expand our habitat to other planets, we'd need the capability to launch a million people a day to hav
by merpnderp 11y ago
There are around ~400k people born every single day. If we expand our habitat to other planets, we'd need the capability to launch a million people a day to have even the remotest impact on population in the near future. Unless anti-gravity or some new weird physics is invented, this isn't ever going to happen.
- mikeash 11y agoIt's the net change after accounting for deaths that would count here. So the pertinent number is about 200,000/day. Not that this changes your overall point.
- smhg 11y agoDoes that mean you assume reducing population to be easy/easier? Increasing our habitat isn't simple. But it at least is likely to get more feasible over time. While reducing population seems to be the opposite of our 'nature' (not that we aren't able to go against that) and it requires the cooperation of basically everyone. Which isn't required by the former. Cooperation seems to get [insert mathematical function] harder when more people are involved. Sidenote: expansion would of course not exclude taking care of existing habitats.