A recent preprint paper examines the minimum number of people required to maintain a feasible settlement on Mars while accounting for psychological and behavioral factors, specifically in emergency situations. This study was conducted by a team of data scientists from George Mason University and holds the potential to help researchers better understand the appropriate conditions …
I saw a documentary about this - you actually only need one person as long as they like eating potatoes
Are you talking about pirate Mark Watney?
Space pirate!
PO-TA-TOES
An old volleyball will do in a pinch. But not for too long
“In the end, they determined that a minimum colony population of 22 agents was ideal to maintain a feasible Mars mining colony over the long-term.”
Until one of them is The Thing.
Does that include the mad eco terrorist/saviour stow away who kick starts terra forming Mars then founds his own colony on the South Pole?
Presumably some of them would have to be female, making a Mars colony settled entirely by muskies unviable.
Unviable, but maybe still a net benefit for the rest of us
You want a colony consisting only of fanatics? Then 22 may be the number. It’s going to be 22 very different types, and every one of them has to decide every day that this is going to last long…
If you want a colony consisting of normal people that lasts for long, then you need thousands. Humans need a lot diversity before they can be normal and stay healthy.
We can’t even look after earth. Why are we trying to colonise another planet??
Because we’re going for mass effect instead of star trek
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