[net.space] Limits to growth

RWG@MIT-MC@sri-unix (11/09/82)

From: Bill Gosper <RWG at MIT-MC>
The volume of a colonization bubble can grow at most as t^3,
whereas self-reproduction can explode exponentially (a^t),
modulo resources.  But these resources (stellar matter) appear
to have *infinitesimal* average density, being fractally
clustered so as to be accessible only as t^1.29.  (Mandelbrot:
The Fractal Geometry of Nature.  W. H. Freeman, 1982.)

However, there are more reasons for all this to be moot than
our unimaginable unimaginativeness can even begin to overlook.