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Take a pinch of the spores of some rapidly-growing fungus and drop them into a gallon jug, one whose walls are coated with nutrient so the fungus can grow as fa
by neovialogistics 3y ago
Take a pinch of the spores of some rapidly-growing fungus and drop them into a gallon jug, one whose walls are coated with nutrient so the fungus can grow as fast as it likes. Suppose you do this one morning, and that exactly 4 days later you find that the fungus has filled the jar and is just beginning to overflow it. How full was the jug the morning of the 3rd day?
It was half full.
- esafak 3y agoThe human population is projected to peak this century, and we have the technology to mold our environment, so there's that... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_growth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_grow...
- neovialogistics 3y agoWe can also calculate at what point we will fill the metaphorical jar and start to cannibalize. We will start using up more resources than the planet produces annually in about 1970: https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/0a834e8c-en/index.html?itemId=/content/component/0a834e8c-en https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/0a834e8c-en/index.html?i...