Re: Re: [GZG] Re: Gzg-l Digest, Vol 13, Issue 9

Laserlight said 
> Let's say you start with 10,000 colonists, and add immigrants at the
lesser of 60,000 immigrants or 10% of the base population per year.

Paul J Foster said:
>Many estimates of growth rates seem unreasonable tome.  If we take
Earth as an example

Take individual countries, you get a broader range.

>I suspect that the above example growthrate is highly unlikely.  
>Of course - there may have been massive immigration

You saw the part about "60,000 immigrants or 10% of the base
population"? That works out to about 4.5 million. Plus all their kids
and grandkids. 

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