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Re:Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, major r... by krisroadruck on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @09:11AM (#18336108)
Since you nerded out on this enough to do the math, you might actually be interested in this video. The only real bottlenecks to getting to these numbers are first, power and second the elevator conundrum. Solve for those and you can have quite a substantial population. Go big enough and the only bottleneck, if you want to stay a single planet species, becomes black body radiation. Check it out

Archologies - Isaac Arther (28:43) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqKQ94DtS54&vl=en

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Re:Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, major r... by tomp on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @02:52PM (#18348301)
> elevator conundrum

Interesting, I've never heard about this before! But isn't it basically just the question of private vs public transport (cars vs underground), but in vertical dimension?

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Re:Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, major r... by deialtrous on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @10:21AM (#18336675)
Science fiction is not a good argument here.
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Re:Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, major r... by krisroadruck on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @03:50PM (#18340671)
I don't remember making an argument, I simply stated that the parent might enjoy this video based on the napkin math they did above...
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Re:Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, major r... by philipps on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @10:34AM (#18336821)
Not only is it not a good argument. It is a dangerous argument. We need innovation and maybe it will come in the form of “whacky” ideas, but please don’t replace the work that climate scientists have been doing for decades with a few “back of the napkin” calculations.
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Re:Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, major r... by krisroadruck on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @03:51PM (#18340680)
Please tell me who and how I put anyone in danger by suggesting the parent to my comment might enjoy a video?
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