Ask HN: How is that humans advanced so much in the past 100 yrs in all fields?

Re:Ask HN: How is that humans advanced so much in the past 1... by brianwawok on Monday October 17, 2016 @11:05AM (#12725604)

I had a bowl with 1 cracker in it for 3 weeks. Over the last 24 hours it now has 7 crackers. And people say my cracker bowl is not overpopulated...

Look. Raw numbers mean nothing. What is the sustainable population of this planet. 1 billion? 10 billion? 100 billion?

I have no idea. As tech improves, our impact per person could be lower. So perhaps the limit today is 5 billion... But in 20 years it could be 20 billion.

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Re:Ask HN: How is that humans advanced so much in the past 1... by Jaruzel on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @03:14AM (#12732691)

Ultimately though, we WILL run out of habitable space.

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Re:Ask HN: How is that humans advanced so much in the past 1... by robattila128 on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @01:06PM (#12745562)

Assuming you do know we are currently only using 3% of the Earths land surface, what reasons are there that humans will run out of space?

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Re:Ask HN: How is that humans advanced so much in the past 1... by h1d on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @05:55AM (#12733160)

Could live vertically, even above ocean if tech allows it (with instant transortation maybe.). Theoretically we have some good amount of room left.

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Re:Ask HN: How is that humans advanced so much in the past 1... by brianwawok on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @01:29PM (#12736775)

At even midsize population density, I am pretty sure we have space for WAY over 100 billion people on this planet. Food production needs some more work, perhaps a bit of us eating lower on the food chain..

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