Re: [OT] Bureau of Relocation

G'day Brian,

While I agree we are making pretty much the same point I think there's a

lot more 'hidden' or egotistical stuff in the push/pull than you. You're

damn right that it cost a heap to colonise in the past, but as I've said

before in relative terms it was as if not more expensive than
interstellar 
colonisation given the assumption of fairly cheap FTL. A lot of the time

ego and curiosity will be enough of a push.

 >You Aussies are far too modest.  Australia is fairly bursting with 
natural resources.

Something the Brits, Dutch and every other country who tried to claim
Terra 
Australis didn't know for sure at the time. Hartog, Cook etc didn't
exactly 
do a geological survey they just stuck up plates and said '"its ours".
The 
fact that the Europeans then spent decades looking for an inland sea
kinda 
suggests they knew jack of what the place was really like, the really 
useful stuff didn't turn up until later.

Cheers

Beth

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