Re: Communication and Travel

Absolutely, no argument aboute colony creation there. However to say
that Isreal _itself_ created their economy from "less than scratch" (as
you put it) is not quite accurate.

Los

John Atkinson wrote:

> You wrote:
>
> >That and 8+ billion $US a year in militrary aid, not to mention
> civilian >aid, plus all teh foreign donations.
>
> And would not an interstellar colony be recipients of a considerable
> amount of aid?  After all, the initial outlay for such a colony
> (except
> on the smallest scale on the most habitable worlds) would be quite
> large--I expect the mother country would make a sizeable effort to
> keep
> the damn thing intact until it can begin contributing to the mother
> country's economy!
>
> John