Re: B Ark Colonist and Colonial Industry... [LONG[

> A colony is unlikely to have all the population concentrated in a
small area.  A good chunk will be devoted to transportation - raw
materials and goods.  Another will be devoted to making
infrastructure - roads,

Roads are incredibly expensive to build and maintain.  Is there any
reason not to use GEVs instead?

>apartments, houses.  Think of how long it would take to generate
enough single-family housing for 10,000 people

there are prefabbed houses now which take 4 people one weekend to
erect.

> Education - assuming a low student to teacher ratio - 1:20 or 1:15,
assuming education lasts a total of 17 years to the equivalent of a
bachelors degree, if 20% of the population is school aged that equates
to 50,000 kids then 2,500 people will be involved in teaching
positions.

electronic learning should help improve the studn to teacher ratio
quite a bit.