I think about estimates of how long it would take a determined civilization to expand itself throughout the universe, and I ask myself --

Does cancer have fun?

@cerebrate the old Malthusian logic for space colonization collapsed after the invention and legalization of birth control.

Turns out, most people aren’t that interested in growth for growth’s sake.

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