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Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk say human population not nearly big enough: ‘If we had a trillion humans, we would have at any given time a thousand Mozarts’ (finance.yahoo.com)

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[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The only way we can have a trillion humans is if we massively colonize the solar system.

Which I think is also a good idea, but we spend too much on our military to do it.

[–] vexikron@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Let me know when humanity manages to construct a self sustaining interplanetary vessel with artificial gravity that can house 100 people on an ongoing basis.

A ballpark estimate for that most basic of first steps would be costing something like a trillion dollars. We would have to assemble it in orbit, you cannot launch such a large craft with rockets.

Basically, this will never happen unless the US military declassifies the supposed gravity negating field generator that is rumored to be essential to the TR 3B, which is itself rumored to exist.

You have to go all in on conspiracy theory tech like that, or magically world peace happens, we invent affordable greater than parity fusion generators, oh and entirely magically figure out how to stop climate change, and replace petrochemicals at every single stage of production in the world economy.

I would call that delusional magical thinking.

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

I didn’t say it would be easy or fast, just that we should expand into the solar system and that’s the only way we get to a trillion people.

Jeez, folks are really argumentative tonight.