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OftenBen  ·  3345 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: NASA Confirms Evidence That Liquid Water Flows on Today’s Mars

I'm not ignorant of biology. But the carrying capacity is determined by the spatial limits placed upon a species. The earth can only carry so many humans (At a specified quality of life) but that knowledge SHOULD drive the process of getting our genetic heritage off-planet, rather than a reduction in total population or quality of life.

Carrying capacity is only an issue if we can't establish viable human populations off-planet.

We can't yet, but we will.



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user-inactivated  ·  3345 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Left to our own devices we will clearly never find the balance. If we encompass Mars, we'll just have more babies until we need to put floating sky castles on Venus. Etc.

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OftenBen  ·  3345 days ago  ·  link  ·  

And floating sky castles on Venus and beyond is somehow worse than the eventual death of the species stuck to this one little rock?

Shit man, I'm an apocalyptic son of a bitch, but even I don't WANT to think that way.

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user-inactivated  ·  3345 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Earlier your argument was, "there should be as many of us as possible." Now your argument is, "you don't even want us to SURVIVE?!"

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