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From: c60a-2jm@tart15.BERKELEY.EDU (Adam J. Richter;260E;;)
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Subject: Re: Population control: Biology vs. Politics
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Date: Sun, 2-Nov-86 06:00:46 EST
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In article <487@vaxb.calgary.UUCP> radford@calgary.UUCP writes:

>	 ...ultimately there are
>        speed-of-light limits: If humans occupy a sphere of diameter
>        D, population growth will be proportional to D cubed, but
>        new space can be colonized at a rate proportional only to
>        D squared.

	Nope.  Assuming that we don't find a way to effectively go
super-luminal (a possibility I see as extremely unlikely), it's most
likely that folks will, as a matter of conveninience, travel in
suspended animation.  Also, you can probably be saved by
time-dilation, but I haven't the time to do any calculations on it.

		-- Adam
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