Re: Magic to aid farming in space

> > Consider skeletons working the harvest.  Cheap labor, relatively
> > simple job, untiring,
> > and best of all, you don't need to feed them.

It's not a simple job.  Not when you only have 12 words to describe it
in.  A couple parts might be easy but most of farming requires fine
discernment.

> Or IOW, to support an urban population of 10,000, you need 6,000
> square
> miles of land devoted to grain farming on the colonial American

Of course, SJ provides some of its own figures for this in the Complete
Spacefarer's Handbook or War Captain's Companion.  Perhaps we should
use those.


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