Sedna, space probes?, colonies? what's next?

"Rand Simberg" wrote in message
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On 25 Mar 2004 22:24:28 -0800, in a place far, far away,
(Christopher M. Jones) made the phosphor on my
monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

OK, you said that twice the current population would be
overpopulation. That's equally nonsense.

I said that we *could* double our population, but at the cost of a
substantial portion of our remaining wildlife habitat.

That's not necessarily true.

Someone's obviously never seen the US from the air.
There's lots of room out there.

Or even driven. California by itself is for the most part empty.

For a very whacked definition of "empty" The majority of Califorinia is
under production as agriculture. So it's not all City, but it's not
"empty".

The San Joaquin(sp?) and Imperial valleys are the vegetable bread basket of
the US (for a whacked metaphor). The Sacramento river delta is the rice
production center of the west coast.

The only really empty parts are the ones there isn't water to irrigate (or
urbanize) and the mountains.