Population Modelling Program

At a guess, thought Beth didn't say so, I imagine she might be using some of
the stuff she uses for work at CSIRO. Since she does population modelling by
day (and by all standards has some rather impressive skills), I imagine the
software used is rather specialized and probably proprietary. (IP and all
that). That's just a guess.:)

I looked into doing this and Beth gave me enough pointers to realize the scope
of an accurate model (I wanted to model individual
planets/colonies/population spaces individually and model inflow and
outflow). (Or perhaps I should say precise model since it can't really be
accurate). This is no small feat. Her ballpark data is probably good enough
for most things and I'm sure she could run some more sims with differing
parameters if we'd like to give her some ideas of what we're looking for. I
myself would be interested to see some max and min case projections just to
see what the ranges are.

And one other thought relating to frequency spectrum usage of the military:
The Canadian Military REGULARLY tromps all over the civilian bands with their
frequency hopping gear and EW stuff (CRTC guys working out of Kingston let us
in on that secret). This is typical. Illegal, but no one can really enforce
it. And you can generally call the base and say "are you guys up to
something?" if you're an inspector and they'll say "yeah, why?". If you
explain what you're getting, they'll often say "don't worry about it, the
tests will be done soon". And then it goes away.

G'day,

> At a guess, thought Beth didn't say so, I imagine she might be using

Yep and yep... you've got to put your talents to good use after all;)

> I'm sure she could run some

Yep

> I myself would be interested to see

OK.

Cheers