• KevonLooney@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Our models are wrong

    Well, your models are wrong. In both examples, you assume exponential growth will continue forever. Resource limits are a thing in the real world, as evidenced by every population in history (humans or animals).

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      1 year ago

      I assumed linear growth and I assumed a frankly absurdly low growth rate. Under this model earth is only sending out a colony ship once every 15,000 years. Does that seem likely? We made 6 trips to the moon and about 50 years later are now planning more. Is there a single thing you can mention that humanity would only bother doing once every 15k years?

      What is far far more likely is waves of ships, pauses of a century or less, more waves of ships…

      Additionally I didn’t assume forever. I assumed a malthusian growth pattern where by aliens keep growing until nothing is left.