Big Countries (and no longer Tree Bases)

> On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 04:07:57PM -0400, Tom Barclay wrote:

And the other way round. We don't really know much about civilian life in the
Tuffleyverse, but I suspect that grav "cars" are probably available to the
fairly wealthy, and grav "planes" will be able to connect city centres.
Someone born on Terra has probably never been more
than a few hours from anywhere else on the planet - and a few seconds,
for face-to-face communications on a videophone.

Such a person going to a colony world is going to have a major isolation
shock... even if everyone does have a satellite videophone, you may well end
up several hours from just your nearest neighbour.