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Re:The Global Fertility Crash by noonespecial on Thursday October 31, 2019 @08:08PM (#21415093)
>The planet and its resources has a finite carrying capacity.

It's a hard jump, but there's not just the one.

Re:The Global Fertility Crash by jbay808 on Friday November 01, 2019 @03:06AM (#21416762)
Yes, granted, but there's not an unlimited number of planets out there either.

Have you heard the puzzle about the bacteria colony that doubles its area in the agar tray every night? On day 10, it occupies half the area. How long before it occupies the whole tray? One more day. You can add another agar tray or ten or a thousand, but it doesn't buy you that much time.

At a constant growth rate, if the solution eventually involves spreading to multiple planets, it's just a few more centuries before we're running low on planets, almost regardless of the size of the galaxy.

Re:The Global Fertility Crash by mensetmanusman on Friday November 01, 2019 @05:05PM (#21423685)
It’s unlimited on any practical timescale an individual should reasonably care about.
Re:The Global Fertility Crash by foobar1962 on Thursday October 31, 2019 @09:30PM (#21415528)
We could all be dead, or society be reduced to medieval levels where the technology to leave our gravity well no longer exists.
Re:The Global Fertility Crash by usrusr on Thursday October 31, 2019 @11:02PM (#21415935)
Not even sure if that's about space or about heaven. Same baseless belief in salvation to me.
Re:The Global Fertility Crash by homonculus1 on Friday November 01, 2019 @07:59AM (#21417840)
We aren't going to be shipping billions of people off to Mars. We'll send some small number and they'll reproduce over there. Having a backup will be great, but it does nothing to address the population that's already here.