"Mike Williams" <mike@econym.demon.co.uk> wrote in message

populations, but it only takes one star-travelling species to have
failed to inhibit their biological imperative to reproduce, and they'll
occupy every inch of real estate in the galaxy in less than a hundred
million years.

What does a biological imperative to reproduce have to do with interstellar
colonization? I say that a species that fails to inhibit their biological
imperative to reproduce would be reduced to a malthusian overpopulation
disaster and not be able to assemble the wealth and knowledge needed to
construct interstellar colonization ships.
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