Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site duke.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!mcnc!duke!ndd From: ndd@duke.UUCP (Ned Danieley) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: STL colonization and exponential growth Message-ID: <6090@duke.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 15:13:45 EDT Article-I.D.: duke.6090 Posted: Tue Aug 13 15:13:45 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 06:15:11 EDT References: <3221@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Reply-To: ndd@duke.UUCP (Ned D. Danieley) Organization: Duke University Lines: 15 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