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 Posted: Fri Oct 16th, 2009 01:31 pm
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Joe Kelley

 

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Howard,

If organic (natural rather than designed by and executed by a person or “man-made”) contraction is a natural result of scarce power, and organic expansion is a natural search for more power, as I presume it to be, then what happens when an organism, such as man, harnesses power beyond a level of scarcity for a long, long time, compared to, for example, the time it takes a bee colony to run out of power?

What is the hypothetical longest expansion period possible for human beings if human beings learn how to avoid wasting power on torturing and killing each other?