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Probably have to leave the planet. the solar system is pretty big. The galaxy is incredibly large, the universe...
by melling 6y ago
Probably have to leave the planet.
the solar system is pretty big. The galaxy is incredibly large, the universe...
- ben_w 6y agoThat isn’t as helpful as it might seem. If each person has an average of 2.4 offspring, and reproduction still requires two people, and the generation gap is an average of (say) 50 years, and if the average person has a mass of 70 kg; then after 27,000 years the biomass of humanity exceeds the mass of the universe, and after about 18,000 years you need FTL to reach that mass. That said, this remains true even if we don’t solve ageing. Exponentials grow faster than polynomials like “volume”.
- melling 6y agoIt’s already at 1.71 in the United States.