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Originally Posted by vicky_molokh
Woops, my mistake. Edited: 10-50 millions of people in orbit/on other planets part- or full-time. But half of Terra's population is just a number in a setting I'm currently running, which I imagined as one of the possible starting points for such a development.
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Originally Posted by weby
-how desperate humanity/major parts of humanity are to get out there.
A mature TL 9^ society with the capability to resource mine in the space and to use robots should be able to build astonishingly large space structures while still using extremely small parts of a planetary wealth.
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And there's the rub: A mature TL 9^ civilization with a planetary population of 4 billion appears to have no pressing
need to go colonising the galaxy. What's their motivation, is basically the first question that needs to be addressed, that will affect all the others.