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The question is not "Would a randomly selected demographic be a good pool for this mission" The question is "Could we create a cadre of 400 highly effective pe
by jvanderbot 1y ago
The question is not "Would a randomly selected demographic be a good pool for this mission"
The question is "Could we create a cadre of 400 highly effective people that could sustain a colony on a spaceship.
I argue the answer to the first is "No" for any demographic but the answer to the second is a clear "Yes".
- judahmeek 1y ago> The question is "Could we create a cadre of 400 highly effective people that could sustain a colony on a spaceship?" For a generational ship, the question becomes even more complex because you would have to build a culture of expertise that can sustain itself over multiple generations.
- icetank 1y agoMaybe the issue is that people assume that a randomly selected population would consist of US citizens. What if you picked Japanese? They did well during covid. An they are know for having a strong communal responsibility. Maybe the average US citizen is just a bad choice for a generation ship? Then again given the choice between sending foreign citizen's or sending no generation ship would probably result in no generation ship bring launched.
- m4rtink 1y agoPeople from latin america might be a good match - last time the fleet of generation ships not only reached the destination in sufficient number, but one of them even ahead of schedule[0]! [0] https://revelationspace.fandom.com/wiki/Sky_Haussmann https://revelationspace.fandom.com/wiki/Sky_Haussmann