Re: Comments on pop
From: "Chris DeBoe" <LASERLIGHT@Q...>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 14:32:48 -0400
Subject: Re: Comments on pop
> colonization could have increased. But would it have increased to give
the
> numbers some have suggested? YMMV. I don't think so. And as for Chris'
> comment - I don't forsee people having 8 kids in an environment where
they
> live to 80 and where mortality does not claim six of those kids. Maybe
even
> 4, but unlikley 8. And as an average? You must be using cloning vats.
<which
> is, I concede, a possibility not accounted for>
Is why I said Hypothetica, not the AE (which grew from 1million to about
37
million over this time span and that includes significant immigration).