Re: [OT] Bureau of Relocation

Brian Bilderback wrote:
> >From: Aron_Clark@digidesign.com
> >Certainly
> >seemed to be a logical argument for colonization.  Over crowded,
> >economically
> >strapped homeworld ships excess population to the stars.
> 
> And where will this strapped homeworld get the cash to send them? 
Space
> travel isn't cheap.

	Agreed.
	In most cases it would be cheaper to use the excess
	population to colonize Antarctica or populate an
	undersea habitat than to ship them to an interstellar
	colony.

	Using space colonies to relieve overpopulation
	is pretty fruitless as well, as compaired to something
	like enforcing birth control.

	Every *day*, the world's population grows by several
	million people.

	Therefore, in order to merely keep the population constant,
	one would have to ship several million people
	into orbit *every day*.