rileyoneill t1_j0frbs6 wrote
Reply to comment by Zeniphyre in We should dismantle Mars, not colonize it. by [deleted]
Why would that be sarcasm? If we colonize 500 earth like planets over the next million years and each one of them has a population of 8 billion that would be 4 trillion humans (or whatever our descendants identify as). There are probably a hundred billion habitable worlds in our galaxy.
Zeniphyre t1_j0fri32 wrote
Other than the obvious fact that we do not need to plague every single planet with our existence, trillions and "quadrillions of quadrillions" are not even remotely comparable.
rileyoneill t1_j0fxw3v wrote
Well, give it a few tens of millions of years and maybe we can get those numbers up to the quadrillions.
And yes. We do need to plague every other planet we can with our existence.
SuperRette t1_j0g399h wrote
Why? Why can't you simply be satisfied with living comfortably?
To spread unchecked throughout the galaxy, well, it will take time, but we will consume the galaxy. Quadrillions of humans in a dying galaxy fighting for scraps, until the last, usable materials, are exhausted. You would have an entire galaxy be sterilized.
Zeniphyre t1_j0h6q2a wrote
Yeah that's just fucking dumb. No other way to say it.
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