Population Modelling Program

At a guess, thought Beth didn't say so, I imagine she might be using 
some of the stuff she uses for work at CSIRO. Since she does 
population modelling by day (and by all standards has some rather 
impressive skills), I imagine the software used is rather specialized 
and probably proprietary. (IP and all that). That's just a guess. :) 

I looked into doing this and Beth gave me enough pointers to realize 
the scope of an accurate model (I wanted to model individual 
planets/colonies/population spaces individually and model inflow and 
outflow). (Or perhaps I should say precise model since it can't 
really be accurate). This is no small feat. Her ballpark data is 
probably good enough for most things and I'm sure she could run some 
more sims with differing parameters if we'd like to give her some 
ideas of what we're looking for. I myself would be interested to see 
some max and min case projections just to see what the ranges are.

And one other thought relating to frequency spectrum usage of the 
military: The Canadian Military REGULARLY tromps all over the 
civilian bands with their frequency hopping gear and EW stuff (CRTC 
guys working out of Kingston let us in on that secret). This is 
typical. Illegal, but no one can really enforce it. And you can 
generally call the base and say "are you guys up to something?" if 
you're an inspector and they'll say "yeah, why?". If you explain what 
you're getting, they'll often say "don't worry about it, the tests 
will be done soon". And then it goes away.