| DarthVolod said: I can't remember who said it, but it was something to the effect that we could fit nearly 100% of the world's population in the state of Texas with roughly the same population density as New York City if we really wanted to. Population growth is not the problem ... quite the opposite when one considers a vast majority of people in some countries are aging and will be dying off in droves with not nearly as many people in the generations that follow them to make up the loss. It has been awhile since I have looked at statistics for this sort of thing, but that is the general impression I have.
Forget about colonizing the sky (I can only imagine how challenging that would be) we need to go the Bioshock 1/From Russia with Love way with seasteading either through underwater cities or above water cities (seasteading). This seems far more practical than cities in the sky or colonies on the moon or something as you have a food source (fish seaweed plants ect.) and a source of energy (solar, wind, geothermic ect.) and easy transportation we already have mastery over (boats, submarines, underwater trains ect.) |
Yeah, colonizing the sea will be next, or building artificial islands. In the distant future (100+ years) Space will be the next option, either moving people on to huge ships, terraformimg mars (far-fetched but possible) or colonizing an earth like planet, but we'll need to make some incredible progress in space travel technology before that's possible. WIth current technology, I heard it would take 19,000 years to get to the nearest star outside our solar system xD
