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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] They were looking at some serious timescales with that Kaelon star, though, no? With disaster near when you measured time like glaciers do. I mean, it wasn't at risk of going out during the episode, as I recall. But even with some temporal space to stretch in, I don't think you can move the population of any planet with Earthlike numbers without resorting to some wormhole-esque transportation scheme. Or even with one. The original post overlooks the fact that the planet's inhabitants aren't just sitting on their hands while all this is going on. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, our population gets a net gain of one person every nine seconds. And that's just in the United States. The total number of humans worldwide goes up by 2.3 every second. So, anyway, I think Operation: Cheese It! will probably need to start with saturation bombing the planet with long-lasting airborne birth control drugs and possibly abortifactants, depending on how patient we are and whether or not we're space <a href="http://www.friesian.com/trek.htm">fascists</a> with little regard for reproductive rights. Ah, details. (For those worried about the opinions of angry libertarians with too much time on their hands, consider their review of The Phantom Menace, which includes the credibility-smashing line: "The Phantom Menace is a splendid, triumphant, inspiring movie".) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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