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Old 02-06-2017, 11:24 AM   #6
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Default Re: From TL9^ interplanetary to TL10^ interstellar space opera in 200 years or less?

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Originally Posted by ericthered View Post
Ok, so you want to somewhere between double and quadruple your population over the course of 200 years, meanwhile moving all this excess population to new worlds?
We have an idea of the human doubling time. It was incredibly long up until the beginning of urbanization. At that point it went to around a thousand years, and stayed there, roughly, up until 1750, when it went to 50 years. With a fifty-year doubling time you could multiply initial population by 16 in 200 years, and that's without continuing immigration.
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