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More or Less covered this a few weeks ago and the short version is that there probably aren’t significantly more people on earth, more that the estimates of where people are (rural vs urban) are incorrect, and as always, more study is needed.

Cool Worlds and Dr Becky are both pretty good for astronomy and general space stuff.

I’d heard lava tubes pitched as one of the more straightforward ways of building a moon base, fascinating to learn that this would actually be a return to form for human dwellings.

Humans: we just like living in lava tubes.

You can’t afford it now. This tech is going to be something people can do in their sheds within a decade.

This is insane. Right now I’m reading The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman (formerly of DeepMind) and I’d been a bit concerned that he was all hype, but giving humanity a 45-fold increase in materials we know about? That’s enormous. The future is going to be a crazy place.

I set up a play-money prediction market on whether this would happen, and it doesn’t look like many people have faith in Musk to pull this one off.

Sounds like a problem for people from Reading (UK).