RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Unfolding Universe (discovery channel)

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

More than likely a majority of us will eventually live off-world in some
sort of ship/cities. The needed materials can be claimed from planets that
we wouldn't find convenient to actually put cities on but we're probably
more likely to just build the cities as huge moving colonies. Of course
also likely is that by the time we have that many people we would have
already become educated enough to hack our own species so that we can live
in most any enviroment. Bionanotechnology and all that jazz.

More interesting to me is how we'll communicate over such distances. I
find interesting these projects that are trying to communicate
point-to-point across any distance using some form of quantum theory. I
don't really understand it but it sounds awesome. If they ever get that to
work that would mean we could have an Internet spread clear across the
Universe with no noticable communications lag anywhere.


I don't suffer from insanity... I enjoy every minute of it.

;):):-):):-):):-)8')
Michael McGlothlin <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
http://mlug.missouri.edu/~mogmios/projects/

On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Ross, Matt wrote:

> Taking some rough (and probably inaccurate) numbers, lets say the human race
> doubles in population every 100 years.  I've heard sci-fi, and other sources
> make claims that the earth can't support over 20 billion of us, so this
> means we have 2 centuries left before we're too populous. (of course, more
> say we're already overpopulated, but I disagree with that).  Another
> statistic I saw in the past was that one in every thousand solar systems
> should have a planet that can be terraformed (somewhere between earth and
> mars).  With a randomly selected number of 1 billion stars in our galaxy,
> that means 1 million potential worlds, and for the sake of this argument,
> I'll say each matches earth in population density.  In 16 centuries from
> that (3800 AD) we will be too numerous to exist only in terraformed planets
> in our own galaxy.  If we find some method such as a dyson sphere to be
> feasible, we can probably last till 5000 AD within our own galaxy.  Another
> key point is, this would require a constant group to be in transit in
> generation ships to avoid overpopulation on any given planet.
>
> Now, I know this is very inaccurate, but unless the people population is
> better controlled, I think population pressure will result in something like
> this.  I don't think "stop thinking about moving" makes sense.
>
> > > At this point in time, I will be surprised if humanity
> > outlives Twinkies
> > > produced yesterday. Not unless folks realize the word,
> > "mine" is a lie.
> > > Our greed will consume the resources of the Earth far
> > faster than the
> > > sun will consume its hydrogen.
> >
> > I don't think we'll perish that quickly, but I do think we
> > have to learn
> > to manage the Earth and stop thinking about moving to other planets.
> >
> > I don't think we'll move to distant galaxies, but who can
> > say?  We might
> > discover something that we can't even conceive of now.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
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