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From: Haas@UTAH-20@sri-unix.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Techno-philosophy
Message-ID: <4833@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 2-Sep-83 14:00:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  2 14:00:00 1983
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From:  Walt <Haas@UTAH-20>

So far, all feasible techniques of expansion into space are highly
capital-intensive.  Capital-intensive societies tend to have
declining populations.  The same technologies that make expansion into
space possible also remove the population-pressure incentive for
expanding into space.  There are, of course, plenty of other incentives-
of which my favorite is the same incentive that makes me climb mountains.

Cheers  -- Walt
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