Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxi!mhuxj!mhuxl!mhuxm!pyuxi!u1100a!u1100s!dad
From: dad@u1100s.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: re: Interplanetary Migration for population control
Message-ID: <143@u1100s.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Sep-83 20:46:59 EDT
Article-I.D.: u1100s.143
Posted: Thu Sep 15 20:46:59 1983
Date-Received: Sat, 17-Sep-83 20:14:03 EDT
Lines: 14

Several people have recently posted articles arguing that since
commercial aviation is able to move more than 300K people per day,
it should be possible to have an out migration from Earth of the
same magnitude.  One significant problem with this line of reasoning
is that the vehicles used to transport commercial aviation passengers
one day are still around to transport more passengers the next day.
In an out bound migration, the vehicles used to transport the passengers
are gone from the system once they are used.  (I am talking about the
interplanetary vehicles, not the shuttles used to move the passengers
to Earth orbit.)  I would hate to think what would happen to the Earth's
supplies of spaceship building materials (e.g. titanium) after 100 years
of sending out thousands of ships each day.

		Doug Davey    Bell Labs    ihnp4!u1100s!dad