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Old September 10th 06, 11:40 PM posted to sci.space.policy,soc.culture.china,soc.culture.russian,uk.sci.astronomy
Rand Simberg[_1_]
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Default Venus is alive and kicking our NASA's butt

On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 22:03:11 GMT, in a place far, far away, Frank
Glover made the phosphor on my monitor
glow in such a way as to indicate that:


Even if you could make travel to Mars as cheap as intercontinental
air travel is today, and had the same number of spaceships, with the
same capacity, as all existing wide-bodied jets, can you even remove
people *fast enough* to keep up with population growth? (and will they
continue to breed after arrival?)


The answer to that one is yes. We currently move more people per day
in airliners than the net world population growth.