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

Beth.Fulton@csiro.au wrote:

> G'day,
> 
> 
>>Think of how long it would take to generate enough 
>>single-family housing for 10,000 people, 
>>
> 
> Assuming that terraforming etc even allow for this in the early years.
Its
> all too possible that even on colony worlds humans will actually clump
> together. Look at Australia, almost the entire population is contained
along
> the eastern seaboard... its like when they settled they didn't the
idea one
> bit and so they stayed so close to the edge they nearly fell off again
;)

Based on what I've been reading about y'all's wildlife, being within
running 
distance of a ship doesn't sound like such a bad idea.

-- 
Ray Forsythe