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How much technological progress could a group of modern people make in a century?
Almost everything here depends on details. What exact skills? What resources are present on the planet? What tools or equipment from the space ship are useable?
So I'm making a lot of assumptions:
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How much technological progress could a group of modern people make in a century?
There are three significant variables: exactly which technologies are known, the number of people sent (Manpower) and natural resource availability.
The most important step would probably be recording ...
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How much technological progress could a group of modern people make in a century?
Most answers focus on development like our society and making assumptions that are not optimal. For instance, copper and bronze should not be skipped because there will be easy accessible surface ...
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How much technological progress could a group of modern people make in a century?
This guy has reached the late stone age with some years of work.
His notable failures:
He could make coke, but his iron results were simply futile, even in the tremendous invested energy and time
He ...
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How much technological progress could a group of modern people make in a century?
It depends on many factors including climate zone, significant predators, topology (fertile river plains / desert / high alpine year long snow / ...), access to resources (food, timber, metal ores, ...
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How much technological progress could a group of modern people make in a century?
Depends where they were and what they had with them and the dangers they face.
Tropical Islands had 10 to fifteen or more children quite often. Life was easy. The sea is easy to harvest from and they ...
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How much technological progress could a group of modern people make in a century?
Very dependent on how you want to tell your story with potential struggles they may have with flora and fauna and especially if they are able to access the storage of tools that are locked away (which ...
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How much technological progress could a group of modern people make in a century?
In space, there are never too many redundancies
If the space program in question is run by sensible engineers, they will have a chain of redundancy for everything their mission requires for success. ...
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How much technological progress could a group of modern people make in a century?
This answer was provided to this version of the question.
This question is very similar to Speedrun to the moon in one lifetime? and my answer to that question is relevant here, but I'd like to ...
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How much technological progress could a group of modern people make in a century?
How much technological progress could one expect them to make in a century?
That depends on what they know.
Do they know how to make stone, bone and wood tools? If yes, there is a chance that some of ...
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What is the or some of the surefire ways to safeguard against Rostazas for sleeping/lesser activity if one is unarmed or lightly armed?
Don't get tall - get small!
Compare your humans and the Rostanzas to a rat defending itself from a cat. The rat doesn't look for shelter via height, cause cats can climb just as well if not better ...
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Would a medieval Arcology be possible?
I highly doubt it. Your better off with a floating ocean or coastal arcology. Waves and wind pumping water, desalination, powering machinery like grain mills, elevators, washing machines (a spinny ...
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