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Subject: STL colonization and exponential growth
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Date: Sat, 10-Aug-85 14:03:55 EDT
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From: Keith F. Lynch 

  Not 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