Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site topaz.RUTGERS.EDU Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!columbia!topaz!KFL From: KFL@MIT-MC.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: STL colonization and exponential growth Message-ID: <3221@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Sat, 10-Aug-85 14:03:55 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.3221 Posted: Sat Aug 10 14:03:55 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Aug-85 02:08:04 EDT Sender: daemon@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 14 From: Keith F. LynchNot a problem. Warwick!simon@topaz ignores time dilation. Whenever a solar system gets too crowded, people can travel to an arbitrarily distant point in an arbitrarily short time by travelling close enough to the speed of light. Or they could use suspended animation and travel slower. Anyway, it's silly to use arguments like this against space colonization. One solar system alone could easily support a population of about 10**20 people, billions of times Earth's present population. If only one person in a billion is a Mozart or an Einstein, think how wonderful the arts and sciences would become with a solar population of 10**20. Or a galactic population of 10**30. ...Keith