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A Mars Colony Needs Just 22 People to Survive, Simulation Suggests::undefined

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know where i got this same number, maybe in a course talking about genealogy in school, a'd i use it since then.

[โ€“] Buddahriffic 2 points 1 year ago

Iirc, the Matrix used that same number for determining how many humans to leave alive outside of the matrix so that the community wound be self-sustaining before they were able to ramp up breaking people out again.