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From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
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Subject: Re: the future long term financial apocalypse of the USA
Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 20:52:11 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <v2llou$1blem$1@dont-email.me>,
Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 5/22/2024 10:57 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
>> On Tue, 21 May 2024 22:33:20 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
>> wrote:
>>> D <nospam@example.net> writes:
>...
>>> I never said that.   I did say that there is no known, or anticipated
>>> technological advance that will make Mars habitable sufficent to support
>>> more than a few people at any one time.   Perhaps you
>>> have been reading too much Science Fiction?
>>>
>>> There are 140 million babies born each year.   What would it take to
>>> transport that many people each year to another planet, and how long
>>> would it take?  And how much would it cost?   And without the governments
>>> that you lambast, who would pay for it?
>> 
>> If he had been reading enough SF, he would have learned long ago that
>> moving lots of people to anywhere else is impractical. Moving seed
>> populations which then grow naturally might be, but the Earth itself
>> will on a path which does not appear to have a turning.
>...
>
>SPOILER ...
>
>If you read the Bobiverse books, there will be a massive world wild 
>nuclear war on Earth in the 22nd century.  The resulting nuclear winter 
>will kill off 99.999% of the people on Earth as the glaciation moves to 
>the equator.

The Bobiverse books are mildly amusing fiction with tremendously 
shitty science. 
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