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>If humanity survives long enough, we are bound to become extremely powerful as science and technology march on.

If children survive long enough, they will surely grow infinitely tall?



Human growth slows down fairly quickly.

Getting started on building a Dyson swarm of power satellites is already very possible, if we were to put say 50% of world GDP into it. They don't need to be any more high tech than what we already have, just more of it, lots more.

Of course, that's economically infeasible at the moment. But as we grow GDP everything becomes more feasible.




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