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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 7766191" data-attributes="member: 22779">And, again, I might win the lottery tomorrow.  But, that's also pretty unlikely.  Unless we are completely and utterly wrong about our understanding of the universe, I'm going stand by what I said.  Again, nope.  Those moved offworld will be dependent on resources from Earth for generations.  If Earth's population continues to expand and we bugger the Earth, then a Mars colony or any other colony for that matter, will die within a generation at the most.  Heck, the Andromeda galaxy will rip apart our galaxy before the sun goes into expansion.  Which will very likely kill all life bigger than a single cell long before we have to worry about it.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />It simply isn't feasible.  Unfortunately.  We've got about 300(ish) milliion years and that's about it.  That's about as long as any species gets before it goes extinct.  Sigh.  Cyanobacteria that exists today is NOT the same as the cyanobacteria that existed a billion years ago.  Good grief, read a book.Oh, I get it now.  Took me a second to see what you were talking about.  Sorry, I thought we were talking about colonization.  You, instead, want to play silly buggers semantic games in order to win.  Yes, it's true.  Japan's population is decreasing.  That's very true.  Heck, most of Europe is in the same boat.  Take away immigration and so is North America.  Yet, funnily enough, as we were talking about colonization, populations do actually decrease naturally in some circumstances.  You are technically correct, and that's the absolutest bestest kind of correct.Here's your cookie.Now, go and actually do a bit of research about biology and thermodynamics and come back and let's have an adult conversation.</blockquote>

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