[FT][SG][DS][Background] Pop Sizes

I proposed some NAC pop sizes and no one really commented. I'm 
putting together a spreadsheet to let me come up with reasonable pop 
figures for a number of countries in 2183. It will allow year by year 
modification, and selection of growth rate. This should let me factor 
in wars and other population diebacks. 

But I was wondering if anyone of the life science types out there has 
the forumula for the abiotic carrying capacity of an environment... 
I'm interested to see if I can figure out where population growth 
slows or plateaus so my model should curb near some estimated 
carrying capacity rather than continue unabated exponential growth.

If anyone does, could they mail it to me off list. When I've come up 
with some numbers, if anybody is curious (probably will complete it 
over the hoidays but have some early results soon), I'll post my 
estimates to a web page and put the URL up here. If not, it'll just 
amuse me. 

There seems to have been a lot of argument about what makes the major 
powers.... and I can't help but think population base (tax base and 
potential markets) have something to do with it, so a reasonable idea 
of what population each state would have should give us an idea of 
what they can afford (given the addition of a simple efficiency 
factor to represent high tech, high affluence economies vs. low tech, 
low prosperity ones). I don't care if you are technologically 
superior - if I have 100 times your population, I should be able to 
start to close that gap if I focus on that task. 

Tom.
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