Re: [OT] Bureau of Relocation

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>> moment, we are talking about the future, and I think we can
take
>> it as a given (in the canon background) that shipment to
orbit
>> is going to become about as cheap as air travel is now.
>
> Well, the same argument applies.
> To keep the world's population constant,
> space travel would appear to be not cost effective.

No argument--we'll undoubtedly have wars instead--but I wasn't
discussing colonization as a means to relieve population
pressure.  Although the people who go may very well be happy to
have some elbow room.