On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Ian Whitchurch
<xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
> Its like you show people a game mechanic, and their brains turn off.
>
> If a world with a billion people, then it has roughly 20 million 18 year
> olds. If it has 1/6th of them go join the IISS, and that world doesnt have a
> IISS base, then thats 3 million people a year we need to move off the world,
> every year.
>
> Theres your need for megafreighters, right there.
>

The flip side of that is there's, at a guess, 100k people a year who
are on "Detached Duty" from the IISS, who have brought their "S" home
for vacation.