Re:Holocene Extinction
by saalweachter on Friday May 08, 2020 @11:14AM
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Yeah, the reason to go to space isn't to get a (fictional) free pass from reaching homeostasis, it's to give you a larger number of resources at homeostasis.
A trillion humans is inherently cooler than a billion humans. More art, more science, more bigger projects achievable through collective efforts.
Exponential growth does not work. In the limit you can only expand in a sphere at the speed of light: O(n^3), so exponential growth is coming to a halt, one way or another, in this universe.
Going to other planets ultimate solves nothing. You either reach homeostasis with your limited resources or you don't, which means you will reach the end of your resources and collapse.