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From: ndd@duke.UUCP (Ned Danieley)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: STL colonization and exponential growth
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Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 15:13:45 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 13 15:13:45 1985
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In article <3221@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> KFL@MIT-MC.ARPA writes:
>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.

But time dilation does not slow down the people who are still in
the solar system and reproducing, and they are the problem. Unless
you assume that you can ship out an arbitrarily great number of people.

Ned Danieley
duke!ndd