On Sep 25, 2014, at 11:39 AM, Timothy Collinson <xxxxxx@port.ac.uk> wrote:

> Oh, and while I'm here, for anyone who was interested, I worked out the 'crew'.  Remember it has a population of 6,000,000 (although I'm allowing for 8,000,000 as I assume a lot of transients).
>
> Command Staff: Station Chief, Computer Expert, Traffic Controller and 500,000 staff
> Engineering: 100,000 staff
> Service: 2,000,000 staff
> Facilities:
>    refinery 20
>    manufacturing 2500
>    construction 2000
>
> (This is with lots of automation)
>
> Can't help feeling those last two are a bit thin, but I'm probably thinking 21st century rather than lots of automation.)
>
> But I guess 2.6 million out of a population of 6 isn't actually too unreasonable although I was a bit shocked by the figures at first.

If the service staff include all the nonresidential employees and such (who may well commute to work from their orbiting hovels elsewhere) this is a reasonable number. Also the people living here are Downton Abbey types, isn’t staff for them something like 5 or 10:1 staff:resident? :-)

Otherwise what they heck are they all doing all day every day? That’s one service person for every 3 or 4 residents. Seems awfully high!

Just have to remember to NOT send off the phone sanitizers on Ark A...

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