A team of computational social scientists at George Mason University has found via simulations that 22 people is the minimum number needed to start a human colony on Mars. The group has posted a paper describing their simulation on the arXiv preprint server.
You could have read the article. It’s based on technical skills, social situations. Not long term population growth.
For me it is the terminology. I thought colonisation was the long term goal of staying more permanently vs a mission which is for a finite period such as this simulation. Had not seen the 28 year limit which makes it more a mission than colonisation. Happy to be corrected.
yeah, but then the headline would not be so clickbaity and attracted less clicks than this “new alabama” suggestion. what are you not getting there? it wasn’t mistake 😂