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John Hadden asked me to post the below, and it did seem on-topic: Hi Mr.Combs, hope you are well . Agreed with most of your response to Sailor Barsoom , I would have
added , imagine that Mars (or the Moon ) had a similar Earth-like environment , oceans , blue sky , clouds ,
land for farming ,lakes , rivers , etc. How long would it take for Humanity to overpopulate it ? 100 years ago ,
we were about 2 billion , we've since more than tripled to over 6 billion (6.9 ? ) . Can we triple again in the
next 100 years to 18 billion People or more ? Doubtful , even if we put excess population on the Moon
and Mars , there will still be billions of Human Beings born into poverty and living an all too short life of
misery before they die of malnutrition or starvation . If we stay on Earth , estimates are by 2050 we will be
able to support 9 - 10 billion , after that many more than today will perish needlessly .
This is why I find O'Neill Habitat concept so exciting , it will create
good jobs and nice homes for every Human Being born for many thousands of years . Am thinking it will
be possible someday to construct Space Colonies as big as the largest countries on Earth . This will
generate more tax-payers , so the rest of us do not have to pay so much tax ? (maybe not ) . The race
is on , who will start the Space Colony Revolution and improve the standard of living for the majority
of Humanity ?

P.S. could you please put this on Yahoo s.s.i. group site , I have been kicked out of the Yahoo site so many
times , have given up trying to get back on .
Cordially , John Hadden , jfhadden@...
Regards, Mike Combs