Interesting little gadget. Yes, while all the Jesus-y types are busily defending zygotes and making sure people who want it can’t get access to birth control, some of us more practical types are wondering exactly how we’re going to feed, shelter and employ a couple billion more people. (Of course, Jesus will come again and destroy all the non-believers, so that should thin the herd, at least a little.)
What’s your number?
Far the more likely thousands upon thousands of cavernous spacecraft, vast slaughter-houses piloted by ravenous vaguely reptilian creatures, replete with horns and folked tail, intent not as benevolent overseers of the demise of this world and our current iteration in human evolution and our children’s evolution onto the next iteration of humanity but as ravenous reptilian creatures… you know, hungry lizards.
We did, afterall, invite them to “Come Eat!”