The Need to Breed

[Angrboda]

The "bolded bit" is not knowably impossible at this time.

Whats not "knowably impossible" about creating resources out of thin air?

First, as a scientific matter, it's not known to be impossible to create resources out of thin air. Period. Moreover, you're engaged in a distinctly uncharitable reading. There is enough energy in a small mountain to solve the world's energy needs for the forseeable future. However that's not a usable resource because we have no way of efficiently accessing that energy. The world's oceans contain enough water to supply our fresh water needs for a long, long time. All we need is to purify it. A decade or so back a device for simply and inexpensively purifying sea water was invented. As a result, the available supply of fresh water to the third world is much greater. Even if resources out of thin air were knowably impossible, it's an asinine reading to assert that this is what was meant, when it's the usable resources that are the problem and their limits, not the quantity of matter and energy in the universe. Increasing the amount of available and usable resources is an equally valid reading. (And yes, I checked the dictionary.) And I suppose when we start importing energy from neighboring unoccupied branes, we're simply using those branes more efficiently than we did before. Have I used the word histrionic yet?

You may only be able to see things in black and white, but that's a limitation you have, and is not a realistic appraisal. You asserted that no alternative solutions were offered. I showed alternatives. Your response is to deny any real and important differences between these approaches. And no matter what solution is offered, since you apparently aren't capable of discriminating between vastly different methods, all methods will be equal to you. (Really, re-engineering the genome is the same as voluntary reproductive limits? Are you high?)

No, I'm not, but apparently you're having trouble reading, I made no comparison between re-engineering the genome and voluntary limits. If I hit you in the head with a bat or a brick there would be marked differences, not that they would matter to you, and so it goes with your more sinister offerings.

You most certainly did when you claimed and implied that only one solution had been offered. That's implicitly claiming the two are equivalent. As follows:

This seems profoundly confusing to me. How do we find solutions without trying to find solutions, through discussion, or through real world trials?

You keep using the plural.......have we been reading the same thread?

Let's see, misrepresenting the science, uncharitable reading, lying about what you wrote... What's next?