PsihoKekec
Swashbuckling Accountant
So let's say there is a stargate on Earth that leads to another Earth-like world with no sapient life, but documentation found alongside the gate shows that after running for a year it will shut down for fifty years. The world powers are uncharacteristically cooperative (serious ROB shenanigans suspected) and colonisation starts shifting people and equipment through the gate to this new world. The goal is to create a self-sufficient colony that will be able to sustain the late 20th century levels of technology through the fifty years of isolation. All major resources have been identified and basic equipment for their extraction and refinement will be delivered along with industrial tooling to start the manufacturing.
The question is, what would be the minimum self sustaining population to be able to keep modern day second world living standards?
This includes not only resource extraction, food growing, manufacturing, power generation and construction, but also education, healthcare, governance and other parts of service sector needed for fully functioning society.
The question is, what would be the minimum self sustaining population to be able to keep modern day second world living standards?
This includes not only resource extraction, food growing, manufacturing, power generation and construction, but also education, healthcare, governance and other parts of service sector needed for fully functioning society.