On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 7:27 PM, CosmicRay
<cr@cosmicray.co.uk> wrote:
Sorry about mixing top- and bottom-posting there btw. Is there an etiquette we should observe?
On 18 Jul 2010, at 02:24, CosmicRay wrote:
> How many people would be needed to safely "seed" that number of descendants without the associated problems that a genetic bottleneck can produce? How long, assuming that the population wasn't added to by additional colonisers from Earth (or the net difference between joiners and leavers is zero), for the colony to naturally attain that number?
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> Essentially I'm wondering if the station was there right now with that number of people, when was it founded and with how many people?
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> kozmikreis