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Re:Larry Page: I’d Rather Leave My Billions to Elon Musk Tha... by chrismonsanto on Thursday March 20, 2014 @04:39PM (#7438559)
> What event could possibly make Earth less hospitable than Mars?

If we reach such a point, lack of room on Earth might be a serious issue

Re:Larry Page: I’d Rather Leave My Billions to Elon Musk Tha... by CWuestefeld on Thursday March 20, 2014 @05:03PM (#7438770)
Take the 7B people on Earth, and assume they're all families of 4. Put them each on 1/4 acre of land. Say that additional infrastructure like roads, schools, and retail will take an extra 50%.

That gives us roughly 1 million sq miles to hold the entire population of the planet on a comfortably-sized lot. That's 1/10 the size of the USA, about the size of the land area of Alaska plus Texas.

The people aren't going to be the problem with land usage.