Timeline for Travelling in space for 6000 years, how many persons are needed?
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| Jan 8, 2019 at 18:18 | comment | added | KalleMP | I think this would be the Amazon ship. You could have enough females for genetic diversity of mitochondria and X chromosomes and then just impregnate with stored sperm (it stores better than eggs or zygotes) as required to keep every female line going with 3 generations around 30 years apart. Say 30 to start and 90 peak. 30 years from destination you can allow males to be born and you will have a population of maximum 30 males on landing, balance women. It would mean one birth per year (perhaps 3 every third year in case wet nursing is a backup). | |
| May 8, 2018 at 13:49 | history | edited | Separatrix | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 8, 2018 at 13:18 | history | edited | Raditz_35 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 8, 2018 at 13:16 | comment | added | Raditz_35 | @dwizum Ideally he would clarify, yes, but he already has the more traditional approaches + mine, so I don't think it would add to the discussion. About the generation ships, I argued that they are not economical in a sense, so I could also argue that you need more advanced technology to build those for a large number of people than to implement my frozen eggs approach. Btw, I'm about to edit my question to clarify. | |
| May 8, 2018 at 13:12 | comment | added | dwizum | That makes sense. Contrasting your answer to the "generation ship" concept really puts the OP in the position of having to clarify requirements in order to choose. | |
| May 8, 2018 at 13:08 | comment | added | Raditz_35 | @dwizum "The story is based on today's technology", I think so is my answer. I don't read it as "exclusively present day technology". This wouldn't make any sense either because we don't have the tech to build that ship. While we might not be able to implement my approach currently, I would argue that we are certainly working on the basics. As I stated, an artificial womb is optional, but I don't think it's far-fetched super advanced technology that would be absolutely unbelievable in a story set say 30 years in the future (even though one could argue that it might take longer). | |
| May 8, 2018 at 13:02 | comment | added | dwizum | This is a good, creative answer but I'm having trouble rectifying this against the OP's comment of "present day technology" since we arguably don't have the tech today to support this (caching genetics and generating humans at will, via artificial womb - or even via a female, at least not reliably and consistently enough to make "1" a viable answer). | |
| May 8, 2018 at 11:53 | comment | added | antweg | @EveryBitHelps Thank you for the information! As you guessed I'm new to the site and I'm thankful for your kind help | |
| May 8, 2018 at 10:58 | comment | added | EveryBitHelps | @antweg glad you found an answer that works for you. We do generally advise to wait 24 hours to accept answers. This is because 1) it gives users in other timezones a chance to answer and 2) some users do not answer questions that have a green accepted tick, even if they do have another solution. Don't worry, if they really want to, they will. You just might be loosing out on potential answers. Welcome to the site. Hope you have fun here :) | |
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| May 8, 2018 at 10:29 | history | answered | Raditz_35 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |