Re: Re: [OT]Anti-americanism? (FMA)

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Subject: RE: Re: [OT]Anti-americanism? (FMA)

> Don said:
> >Sociologists agree that in the realm of colonization
> of space and planets etc. 5,000 persons is the upper limit because
anything
> over that and humans break down but, anything less would be
unsustainable.
>
> I had intuited that, that's one reason for the Alarishi being spread
out
among a lot of rocks, but I'd be interested to get more detail. 
Sources?
>
A NASA study done in 1990 (I think). I only remember it because the
conclusion it reached. The ideal human settlement was the old classic
city-state, with out lying farms etc..
Don