"Joseph Hertzlinger" <jhertzli@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message

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.

Willing is not the same thing as able, and your answer isn't compatible with
the orignal scenario which I asked the question about.
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Kevin Allegood ribo@mindspring.com
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90% of any sufficently advanced technology is
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