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Comment author: komponisto 10 May 2012 01:44:38AM *  15 points [-]

(!) But look what he says here (emphasis added):

Do you think that Humans in our lifetime will achieve the technology to be able to live forever? [...]

Yes, I think it's inevitable. But that would eventually make for a very crowded Earth. So perhaps that's what we need to jumpstart the space program.

It seems this belief of his just hasn't yet propagated to the part of his mind that answers the cryonics question.

Comment author: [deleted] 13 December 2012 10:59:32AM 0 points [-]

Yes, I think it's inevitable. But that would eventually make for a very crowded Earth. So perhaps that's what we need to jumpstart the space program.

Well.. It doesn't necessarily lead to that. You can just not have children.
And it doesn't have to be not to have children at all. Ie. 1 child for everyone happens to be 0.5 children per person.

Just saying that the "space program" probably isn't the best solution.. for now.

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