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That's easy to work out but I can tell you not it's going to be more than we will ever use.


You have no idea, what amount of energy we will be able to use the long run.


220, 221, whatever it takes.


We have potentially millions or billions of years of history in front of us. If we find a way and a motive to have self-sustaining communities outside this planet, and considering our own history, it looks at least plausible that we will continue spreading, after dominating an entire planet against the brutal odds of natural selection, which we basically hacked with our consciousness to reach this state.

Keep in mind that energy is not electricity. When a rocket is burning huge amounts of fuel to reach orbit, that's energy we're using, a lot of it.


"640K ought to be enough for anybody"


Typical human response




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