On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Jon Lang <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > > 4E Space suggests 10,000 colonists. My tentative numbers come > > in at $20M per person. Ugh. > > Nobody ever said that interstellar travel was cheap - at least, not > without positing some sort of superscience. > > It costs the US something like a million bucks to keep a soldier deployed for a year. Now, the US dollar is somewhat inflated compared to the GURPS one, but even if ti's a two fold difference, It's still only 40 times as much. Really, it's not that much money for a mature planetary society of sufficient technical level. -- David Scheidt [email protected] _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
