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Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition

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Re: Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition

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> Habitability for 1,000 ± 500 people over centuries Is this enough for a healthy breeding population?

The human population might have been reduced to as few as 1000 individuals at one point:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq7487

Re: Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition

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> Habitability for 1,000 ± 500 people over centuries Is this enough for a healthy breeding population?

most importantly, will we carry 1000 of the best minds of our generation, 1000 hairdressers/insurance salesmen/management consultants or 1000 billionaires and their direct families?

Re: Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition

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> Habitability for 1,000 ± 500 people over centuries Is this enough for a healthy breeding population?

most importantly, will we carry 1000 of the best minds of our generation, 1000 hairdressers/insurance salesmen/management consultants or 1000 billionaires and their direct families?

I vote 1000 billionaires and family. Then the rest of us can get to work repairing the damage they've done.
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