[ExI] tech influence

[Ben]

William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com> wrote:

 > "Also we are not stuck long term on just this one rock.  So I see no good
 >reason to get very excited about population size."
 >
 >Does anyone honestly envision exporting billions of people to planets 
light
 >years away?  None habitable that we know of.  bill

Does anyone honestly think it's a good idea to spend all the effort, 
energy and money necessary to escape from one deep gravity well, only to 
throw yourself down another one?

Yes, I know the answer to that, but can't understand why.  If you just 
stop thinking in terms of planets, there's a humungosity of living space 
in this solar system alone, and more energy than you can shake a 
trillion O'Neill habitats at.

Planets are lousy living spaces, a terrible waste of matter, difficult 
to leave, and they have /weather/!

Ben Zaiboc