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A founder population of 1,000 wouldn't be unprecendented. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_bottleneck#Humans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_b
by Symmetry 10y ago
A founder population of 1,000 wouldn't be unprecendented.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_bottleneck#Humans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_bottleneck#Humans
The real problem is that an individual can only learn so much and 1,000 can't support the skills needed to run something like a modern civilization.
- Pxtl 10y agoThe first and possibly only settlers will be AIs. The scientific breakthroughs needed to make an interstellar spaceship are so far away that we must assume they'll be post-singularity tech.
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