On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 22:31:54 GMT, in a place far, far away, "Dave
O'Neill" dave @ NOSPAM atomicrazor . com made the phosphor on my
monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

No, you were saying that we are overpopulated. I am saying that we
are so far from being so that it's not worth worrying about.

While the Earth and the US are not, bits of it are.

However, this raises an interesting point. Given that the Earth is far from
over populated - why not colonise the underpopulated bits of planet Earth
first?

First? You mean before space? We surely will, but there's no reason
to not start to colonize space as well if it's economically feasible,
for at least two reasons: eggs in a single basket (we had another
close brush with an object the other day), and ability to start with a
clean sheet of paper in government.