Re:When half a million Americans died and nobody noticed
by meric on Friday May 11, 2012 @04:02AM
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Yes I know the universe is REALLY BIG but infinity is INFINITELY bigger. I am saying population cannot grow, infinitely. There will be a limit.
Re:When half a million Americans died and nobody noticed
by ars on Friday May 11, 2012 @06:03AM
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How do you know? No one knows if the universe is infinite or not. And even exponential growth takes time - if it takes longer than the heat death of the universe (assuming a finite universe in both time and space) to fill it up, then it doesn't matter if it's exponential.
And to bring things back to this earth, this isn't going to be a problem for such a long time that predicting anything whatsoever about it is futile.
Re:When half a million Americans died and nobody noticed
by meric on Friday May 11, 2012 @07:23AM
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>> And to bring things back to this earth
Let's end this with a Asimov short story. http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html
Not much more than you are otherwise loosing by using the oil instead of burning it. The hard part is getting carbon - not a lot of CO2 in the air.
> I'm going to pre-emptively reply "Exponential growth".
But we are not having exponential population growth right now. And even if we were, the universe is big REALLY big, stupendously unimaginably big. Even just the Earth is enormous, and we are nowhere close to filling it up.