Subject: Re: Are aliens hiding their messages? (was: Fermi paradox)
From: Joseph Hertzlinger
Date: 03/08/2003, 18:11
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.science,sci.astro.seti,alt.sci.seti

On 30 Jul 2003 12:27:59 -0700, Riboflavin <ribo@mindspring.com> wrote:

What does getting crowded have to do with sending off interstellar
spaceships? Unless you're arguing that your aliens say "quick! if we
send off 0.00000000002% of our population, everything will be fine",
you really need some more explanation. Shipping vanishingly tiny
fragments of your population away at great cost isn't a solution to
crowding problems.

The more people there are, the more people will be nuts enough to be
willing to move to another planet.