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[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

No!  We could, ah, CHANGE IT!

YES!  We could change the fundamentals of our economy.  Which are strong as it is.  Yes.

NOOOOOOOO!!!!1

WE NEEDS MOAR PLANETZZZZ!!!!!!ⁿ√·∙·∙°≈÷⌡⌠≤≥±≡

Actually, I've thought about this, and the obvious best solution is genetic. I won't go into details here, but it involves lots of sex with pygmies.

Hey, have we discussed this before? Because a while back I was thinking that a great way to reduce our need for resources would be to engineer ourselves to be tiny. We could start with just an inch every 20 years, so there wouldn't be a huge gap between generations, until we eventually were about half the size we are now.

Current houses would be really troublesome and require a lot of remodeling, but they could also be converted to townhouses, providing twice the housing that's currently available.

[Bruno]

I don't think we have. It's a thought I had a few years ago. Personally, I think it will happen on its own by natural selection eventually, if we don't get extincted first.

The sooner we get started the better, though. Want to start a pygmy mailorder bride/groom business?


...or maybe a mailorder pygmy sperm/embryo bank?

[AFK]

I dunno, some pretty good science has come from the un-manned missions to Mars.  Hell, those two rovers they sent have far outlasted their original life span.  Meanwhile, the manned space program has managed to needlessly kill 17 or so astronauts.  It is a shame to have sunk so much money into the Constellation program and then have the plug be pulled, but what I've read sounds like it's a loss-cutting measure as there were serious questions about the vehicles being developed.  I just hope they find someway to get astronauts back to the Hubble to re-service it before it's number comes up.  That thing has brought us so much science and information about the universe, it would be a shame to lose it. 

[Reginald Ret]

I kind of want people to have places to live, access to medical care, and enough to eat.

unobtainable goal.
give people that and they make more people.
more people means the goal becomes unobtainable.


i applaud your ethics but not your logic.

A. I didn't present any logic whatsoever in my post, so there isn't any to applaud or not applaud in the first place.
B. The highest population growth occurs in the poorest and least-educated countries.
C. What Cain said.
D. It's true, solving the obstacle of having a growth-based economy is beyond me.

A. i assumed there was a logic behind it, my bad. Only thing that remains: i applaud your ethics.
B. true AFAIK. and this is my prefered method of population control: Increased education.
C. I am interested in the why of what Cain said/linked. (Cool link btw.)
D. and me, sadly. 

[NotPublished]

We can resort to breeding permits! "If we don't approve, your genetics end here."

Alternatively, there is de-sexing. And homosexuality is natures way of population control (See even Mother Earth is taking a part in this plight!)

Hey, have we discussed this before? Because a while back I was thinking that a great way to reduce our need for resources would be to engineer ourselves to be tiny. We could start with just an inch every 20 years, so there wouldn't be a huge gap between generations, until we eventually were about half the size we are now.

Current houses would be really troublesome and require a lot of remodeling, but they could also be converted to townhouses, providing twice the housing that's currently available.

Oh my god thats a hilarious idea!!

[President Television]

Oh my god thats a hilarious idea!!

Imagine the time travellers. "WE HAVE COME TO SET RIGHT WHAT ONCE WENT- Hey, I'm down here. Get your crotch outta my face, spag."

[Doktor Howl]

Nobody caught the really funny part of that.

[The Wizard]

A moon colony would be impressive. But then again, I've read Moon is a Harsh Mistress so much my book split in half. Still, a new world would be nice for the first couple generations, until we fucked it up.

[Cain]

I am interested in the why of what Cain said/linked. (Cool link btw.)

People tend to have less kids as their economic situation improves.  The why's and wherefores of that are complicated.

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

A moon colony would be impressive. But then again, I've read Moon is a Harsh Mistress so much my book split in half. Still, a new world would be nice for the first couple generations, until we fucked it up.

Heinlein made revolution fun again.

[Reginald Ret]

I am interested in the why of what Cain said/linked. (Cool link btw.)

People tend to have less kids as their economic situation improves.  The why's and wherefores of that are complicated.

So the economic situation is improving world wide?
Cool.
Here i was thinking the world was doing bad in most places.

[The Wizard]

Heinlein made revolution fun again.

That he did. That he did.

[Cain]

I am interested in the why of what Cain said/linked. (Cool link btw.)

People tend to have less kids as their economic situation improves.  The why's and wherefores of that are complicated.

So the economic situation is improving world wide?
Cool.
Here i was thinking the world was doing bad in most places.

Here's an idea: stop putting words in my mouth you fuckstick, and maybe I wont follow you around the board for the next year sniping at your every statement, OK?

[The Wizard]

I think that was a failed attempt at humor, rather than putting words in your mouth.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Nobody caught the really funny part of that.

twice the housing!

(unless you're laughing at something different)