Re: How many people can the Solar System support?

From: Rodney Kelp (Rodneykelp605_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/18/04 

Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 05:10:31 -0400

If everybody needs a 4x6 burial plot you could calculate when you would run
out of real estate for graveyards.

"Al Jackson" <aajiv@flash.net> wrote in message
news:fa9de496.0408170949.4af2534b@posting.google.com...
> Lets start this as a new thread.
>
> Gactimus wrote:
> > How many people can the earth support?
>
> A related question: How does this compare to the number of people that
> the solar system as a whole can support?
>
> -- Neil
>
> I guess you would build a Dyson Sphere, but as the upper limit on the
> population it could support, a little Googling around does not show me.
> Be an interesting calculation.
>
> Look here for a Dyson Sphere:
>
> www.nada.kth.se/~asa/dysonFAQ.html
>
> I guess we would talking about a Dyson Sphere that uses all the major
orbiting
> material in the solar system. Of course a real Dyson Sphere is a Spherical
Shell
> of orbiting spheres or some kind of orbiting thing a ma bob's. 

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