How many people can the Solar System support?

Joann Evans wrote:
And what fraction of humans are cremated?

A surprisingly large number, I'd bet. Many cultures
on Earth do not practice ritual burial. And even
those that do do not typically do so exclusively.
Cremation is popular among Hindus, Sikhs, and the
Japanese, for examples.

"Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)" wrote:

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Taking all of the rocky bodies (venus, earth, ....) and using them
along with hydrogen/... from the gas giants (not the cores) then
the total number is somewhere around 10^22.

The first thing you run out of is phosphorus.


Is it *really* necessary for all those people to have glow-in-the-dark
watch dials?

No, but they may want a bit of fertilizer.

Never mind fertiliser - if phospohrus is low, you get limits as to
how much ATP is poossible. no atp, no people :P






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"Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)" wrote:
The first thing you run out of is phosphorus.


Is it *really* necessary for all those people to have glow-in-the-dark
watch dials?

No, but they may want a bit of fertilizer.

Never mind fertiliser - if phospohrus is low, you get limits as to
how much ATP is poossible. no atp, no people :P


Good point.

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Al Jackson wrote:
A related question: How does this compare to the number of people that
the solar system as a whole can support?

Depends. Do we count uploads and brains in a can and uplifted
ferrets and so on as "people", or just mark 0 _homo sapiens_? All the
other forms of sentience in the solar systems may have something to say
about the plans to convert it into subsistence hotel rooms for _HS_...
Jon
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(Jon Leech) wrote:

Depends. Do we count uploads and brains in a can and uplifted
ferrets and so on as "people", or just mark 0 _homo sapiens_? All the
other forms of sentience in the solar systems may have something to say
about the plans to convert it into subsistence hotel rooms for _HS_...

Now now, considering eventualities such as those reveals this whole
discussion to be pointless and silly. So it's probably best to ignore
them, and pretend that humanity in the year 2500 will look just like
humanity in the year 2000, but with flying cars.

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