How to get to 10 trillion people in this solar system?

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "Omar E. Vega"
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this is a beautiful dream, but ...

1) some stations will likely be build long before that century. they
will not have all that stuff

2) someone was pointing out that religious pressure is a good push
to get ppl out there. religions would not allow that kind of thing.

3) there is no indication that the 'star trek' type of replicator is
even feasible. if it does, i have my doubts that it will happen
before the first stations are built.

4) unless something is done to curb population by the end of that
century (assuming that we have stations a lot sooner) of the human
race will be almost a hundred trillion. at the rate of population
increase, will need to increase the capacity of the stations several
billion a day.

its a beautiful dream and i think you should keep dreaming it. maybe
the future will be closer to it than the disaster i foresee.
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> Hi,
>
> Yes, the space settlers not only will have resources to mantain a
> trillion people, but also will have the most modern genetic
> engineering and technology.
>
> Imagine the first major settlements of the solar system happen 100
> years from now.
>
> Now, those people not only will have all the technology needed to
> convert asteroidal row materials and sun light in all the goods
> required for them to survive, including food, machinery and real
> state at will. They will have the highest tech available at those
> times.
>
> Besides, in genetics, they very likely will reproduce by ARTIFICIAL
> means. I bet they will be using artificial wombs and will have the
> more advanced genetic engineering and screening available.
>
> Even more, they will carry ALL the genetic pool of the world stored
> in the form of frozen eggs and sperms; or perhaps just stored in
> magnetic memories. And it is even possible that by then they could
> produce even more diversity than the current one by creating
> artificial genes.
>
> When they decide to have kids, they will pick they own genes, add
or
> rest some more from the genetic bank, put the embrio in an
> artificial womb and wait nine months. Theirs kids will be produced
> with the "highest standards of quality", to say the least.
>
> Even more, perhaps natural reproduction in the way we are
> accustumed, will be something very strange 100 years from now.
> Individuals likely will be infertile, and will reproduce (by
> artificial means) when they decide it is right to do; not forced by
> nature, probabilities or irresponsabilities.
>
> So, the idea those settlers will be affected easily by MALTUSIAN
> laws seems quite out of place. They will be MORE civilized than us
> and not less. The idea of a catastrophic future in space perhaps
> could sale a lot of books of Cyberpunk, but is not realistic.
>
> Settler will live a lot more civilized than us. They will be even
> better prepared than us to survive, because they won't need Earth
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