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re: Aliens may have economic issues, too
phil — (archived)

"the Fermi Paradox assumes an exponential spread of civilizations across galaxies. Such an expansion must be closely linked with expansion in population, environmental impact, and the consumption of resources.

The problem is that this kind of growth may not be possible, and they look at Earth as an example. For any expansion to be sustainable, the growth in resource consumption cannot exceed the growth in resource production. And since Earth's resources are finite, and it has a finite mass and receives solar radiation at a constant rate, human civilization cannot sustain an indefinite, exponential growth."

Uh, how limited and unimaginative can they be if they think that an INTERSTELLAR Fermi race is limited by a planet's resources? Were we simply to spent just one Obama (a trillion dollars) we'd have access to the resources of the sun's energy and the NEO solar system materials.

In their defense, most every century since the dawn of the scientific method has been sorely limited by their imaginations, underestimating what science and human enterprise can achieve.

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