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tonyhart7last Saturday at 6:48 AM3 repliesview on HN

so we need to extract resources from space asap, now that the planet cant sustain entire human race


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maxbondlast Saturday at 8:46 AM

Adding more resources doesn't solve the problem that they aren't being managed sustainably. We can't exhaust all the resources in space, but we could definitely exhaust all of the resources accessible to us in space. Like how we can't exhaust all of the oil or all of the gold on this planet, but we could exhaust all of the resource which can be mined economically.

This was once explained to me with a metaphor of a bacteria colony in a jar. The colony doubles every 24 hours. So they quickly exhaust the space in the jar. No problem, you give them another jar. 24 hours later, their population doubles, and they have filled both jars.

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duskdozerlast Saturday at 8:15 AM

now this guy's just a straight shooter with upper management written all over him.

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prmoustachelast Saturday at 3:53 PM

No, we need to reduce dramatically our own population.

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