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Yeah, absolutely. Even with unlimited food at his disposal, it still took 5-6 months to do this. It gets easier with more humans, because some of them can speci
by bane 11y ago
Yeah, absolutely. Even with unlimited food at his disposal, it still took 5-6 months to do this. It gets easier with more humans, because some of them can specialize in exchange for the energy gathered by other specialists (hunters, farmers, etc.). You can have a guy specialize in nothing but cutting wood, or in nothing but making tiles.
Get enough humans together and you develop enough spare capacity to dedicate a few percent of your population to mine for ore and now you get metals, which give you even more spare capacity over short-lived stone and wood tools and the technological ball rolls on and on picking up more and more speed.
- pauletienney 11y agoElon Musk and his teams estimate that 1 million people on Mars would be enough to be earth-independant.
- Someone 11y agoAt what level of industrialization? I find it hard to believe that, for example, one can build a 20nm chip fab with a million people, keep a fleet of emergency helicopters operational (you would need only a few, and that makes it harder to do) or launch a set of GPS satellites.
- cryoshon 11y agoI'd estimate less. Either way, the main problem is hauling all those people and all that shit from here to there. 6 months is a long space journey.
- tim333 11y agoBy the time we get to Mars we'll have pretty good robots. It's much easier to support them which is why they are trundling Mars as we speak and humans are decades off. It'd probably be a handful of people and a lot of robots.