RE: NAC units, was Odd FT Idea

You wrote: 

>Look at the example of Australia in about the 60s, population around 
15 >million and quite a thriving economy. Use a similar model for the 
middle >aged colonies and it seems quite reasonable.

Right.	And Australia has a GNP (1995) of 337.9 Billion US dollars.  
Compare to US's (1996) $7,567.1 Billions.  If we amalgamated tomorrow, 
who do you think would dominate the union economically?  I find it 
exteremely likely that Terra will continue to be the economic (and also 
'spiritual', for lack of better term) heart of the Human Race for at 
_least_ the next two centuries, especially if you suppose no 
colonization until the 2070s.

John M. Atkinson