Not really. No artifical environment, in space or on Mars or any outer system moon, could ever support more than a few million people. He's not saying it flat out, but he's talking about massive population reduction.
Fuck man, just launch those spent cores into the Sun. Whats that gonna do, disrupt the delicate balance of the giant fireball's ecosystem? Foresight is a super power
Unless you're talking a fairy tale "infinite energy" scenario, you can support vastly more human lives terrestrially with any given amount of energy than you can in space. Earthside habitation will be preferred until population density becomes an issue. There's no way all of humanity would just voluntarily abandon the entire planet to become a glorified park. Bezos should just stick to being head delivery boy.
No they couldn't. We only have one habitable planet. Terraforming Venus and Mars would be much less efficient and even if you did terraform them you can only have so many lives on a terrestrial planet before it becomes impossible to remove waste heat. Thermodynamically Earth can probably only support in the low trillions and that's covering it in layers of mega city across its entire surface. You could spend a thousand years terraforming Venus to support a few billions in relative comfort or trillions in misery or ignore Venus and support quadrillions in the asteroid belt.
I thought we were talking about leaving earth empty to live in space? Yes once you hit an upper bound living on earth becomes little less costly than living in space, but for those first few trillion it would be much less resource intensive to live planetside than to fuck off into space for no reason.
Not really. No artifical environment, in space or on Mars or any outer system moon, could ever support more than a few million people. He's not saying it flat out, but he's talking about massive population reduction.
Fuck man, just launch those spent cores into the Sun. Whats that gonna do, disrupt the delicate balance of the giant fireball's ecosystem? Foresight is a super power
Unless you're talking a fairy tale "infinite energy" scenario, you can support vastly more human lives terrestrially with any given amount of energy than you can in space. Earthside habitation will be preferred until population density becomes an issue. There's no way all of humanity would just voluntarily abandon the entire planet to become a glorified park. Bezos should just stick to being head delivery boy.
But there is material for trillions of artificial environments that can each support millions.
Unless the resources are infinite those same resources could be used to support even more lives on a ready made, habitable planet.
No they couldn't. We only have one habitable planet. Terraforming Venus and Mars would be much less efficient and even if you did terraform them you can only have so many lives on a terrestrial planet before it becomes impossible to remove waste heat. Thermodynamically Earth can probably only support in the low trillions and that's covering it in layers of mega city across its entire surface. You could spend a thousand years terraforming Venus to support a few billions in relative comfort or trillions in misery or ignore Venus and support quadrillions in the asteroid belt.
I thought we were talking about leaving earth empty to live in space? Yes once you hit an upper bound living on earth becomes little less costly than living in space, but for those first few trillion it would be much less resource intensive to live planetside than to fuck off into space for no reason.
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