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Night gaunt, do you have any idea how many ants Earth presently supports? How about the number of termites. Jinx is insectoid, so I can easily imagine a hive of unimaginable numbers.
If you can Imagine them, the Hives numbers aren’t “unimaginable” after all….Staggering, Awe-inspiring, Terror inducing, Gargantuan, Mind numbing? Yes…“Unimaginable”? Not so Much…
… assuming they used their resources no less inefficiently than we do.
… which is a horrible assumption because we use our resources very ineffiently and could easily support 10 times the current human population even using the resources the exact same way we use them right now.
Some of you people need to step out of the cities and realize just exactly how big this planet actually is.
By building arcologies that engaged in total recycling, IOW, ground based space stations that input and output nothing but waste heat and used either geothermal or solar power, Earth could support a population of hundreds of billions. Sadly, we’re far more likely to kill ourselves off than do something that reasonable. However, a building less than half a mile on a side by twenty stories high would provide 2000 square feet of space each for one million inhabitants. That would include each person’s working and living space and share of public infrastructure and food growing areas. Aeroponics is capable of growing food in such space restrictions, waste recycling is totally well understood now, heating and cooling requirements would be far more easily met than in current cities. Only seven thousand such structures would house the entire human population as it currently exists, taking up 1750 square miles of surface. Currently, the city of Tokyo by itself takes up 844 square miles. We waste a lot of space and building material on tiny dwellings, by any remotely logical standard.
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Ottodesu said, 4 months ago
Hive mindedly considered.
Night-Gaunt49 said, 4 months ago
How could their planet sustain 68 billion inhabitants?
Michael McMillan said, 4 months ago
@Night-Gaunt49
Night gaunt, do you have any idea how many ants Earth presently supports? How about the number of termites. Jinx is insectoid, so I can easily imagine a hive of unimaginable numbers.
comicnut4636 said, 4 months ago
Over 26% gone!!!
Veridian said, 4 months ago
@Night-Gaunt49
Depends on the size of the Planet doesn’t it?
Veridian said, 4 months ago
@Michael McMillan
If you can Imagine them, the Hives numbers aren’t “unimaginable” after all….Staggering, Awe-inspiring, Terror inducing, Gargantuan, Mind numbing? Yes…“Unimaginable”? Not so Much…
Night-Gaunt49 said, 4 months ago
@Michael McMillan
Now imagine ants the size of humans.
Night-Gaunt49 said, 4 months ago
@Veridian
It would have to be larger than Terra but smaller than Jupiter and solid.
imgran said, 4 months ago
… assuming they used their resources no less inefficiently than we do.
… which is a horrible assumption because we use our resources very ineffiently and could easily support 10 times the current human population even using the resources the exact same way we use them right now.
Some of you people need to step out of the cities and realize just exactly how big this planet actually is.
old1953 said, 3 months ago
By building arcologies that engaged in total recycling, IOW, ground based space stations that input and output nothing but waste heat and used either geothermal or solar power, Earth could support a population of hundreds of billions. Sadly, we’re far more likely to kill ourselves off than do something that reasonable. However, a building less than half a mile on a side by twenty stories high would provide 2000 square feet of space each for one million inhabitants. That would include each person’s working and living space and share of public infrastructure and food growing areas. Aeroponics is capable of growing food in such space restrictions, waste recycling is totally well understood now, heating and cooling requirements would be far more easily met than in current cities. Only seven thousand such structures would house the entire human population as it currently exists, taking up 1750 square miles of surface. Currently, the city of Tokyo by itself takes up 844 square miles. We waste a lot of space and building material on tiny dwellings, by any remotely logical standard.