[extropy-chat] World population in the year 2300

Kevin Freels kevinfreels at hotmail.com
Thu Dec 18 23:43:24 UTC 2003


lol! You just crack me up!
But why did you stop? If we all uploaded to a quantum computer we could all
exist with infinite processing capability in a single atom.

----- Original Message ----- 
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Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 5:00 PM
Subject: [extropy-chat] World population in the year 2300


> Kevin Freels wrote:
> >I was just running some numbers. Feel free to correct me if I did it
wrong.
> If the world population is will be 9 billion and we put everyone in the
> state of Texas (268,601 square miles), everyone would have 832 square feet
> to themselves. Am I missing something here? Where's the crisis?
> />
>
> Ooooo, fun with numbers. But why assume the continued existence of Homo
> sapiens three hundred years from now? Such an idea seems soooo provincial.
> All one needs is a splash of optimism, a measure of creativity and an
> overdose of foresight to generate much juicier numbers. After uploading
> eight billion brains, the open pit copper mine in Utah (Kennecott's
Bingham
> Canyon Mine) is just the right size to neatly accommodate the resulting
mass
> of useless human flesh. And, if each man rubbed one out as a farewell to
> reality their combined "product" could fill a cube measuring sixty feet on
> each edge. If the last burning man festival could be held in Antarctica
(and
> be renamed melting man) I should like to hereby call dibs on the
> aforementioned jiz - I have an "ice" sculpture in mind: a pair of
life-sized
> whales perhaps (guess what species). But what to call it? Maybe Onan's
> revenge? Or just the equally obvious "all that jiz"?
>
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