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		amirnathoo on May 1, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Larry Page on how to change the world "how do we reconcile our innate capacity to continuously expand with a finite world?" How about colonizing space? Seriously. Do you think it will never happen?

nazgulnarsil on May 2, 2008 [–]

how does colonizing help relieve population pressure?

you send out 10,000 colonists to start a new planet. great, that's a blip in terms of population growth.

send out 100 ships, that's just 1 million people.

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