Re: Thinking out loud. . .

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From: "CS Renegade" <njg@csrenegade.demon.co.uk>
> > The population growth rates I used set pretty quickly to
> > levels close on double that humans comfortably naturally
> > maintain (though they would equal what you'd get everyone
> > had big "farming" families and no infant mortality).
>
> I've been thinking of ways to push beyond these limits
> without resorting to azi. How about using a drug
> (administered to the entire breeding population) to throw
> the natural M/F ratio on conception?

The IF would love that, I guess. 4 women for every man ;-)

> Automated labour (i.e.robots) and vastly improved gerontology cover
for
the
> missing male population.

What about the standard use for surplus males - warfighting ?
;-)

> Admitted, there's nothing in the canon background to
> suggest this might be so, even within states such as the
> ESU.

Definitely
Karl Heinz