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Simulations suggest only 22 people are required to start a colony on Mars
- jqpabc123 3y agoDoes this include the possibility that most of them will be dead very shortly due to mechanical failure, extreme cold, radiation exposure and lack of oxygen? Personally, I think it would be much easier to build a sustainable colony in geostationary orbit with simulated gravity. Mars really has nothing to offer that couldn't be duplicated at lower cost.
- mannykannot 3y agoThe calculations are predicated on a steady stream of resupply from Earth, so this is not a self-sustaining colony of survivalist dreams.