• ApeNo1
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    10 months ago

    Was this simulation just based on population growth or did it also take into account genetic variation which I believe is also critical for certain aspects of a species survival?

    • wahming@monyet.cc
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      10 months ago

      You could have read the article. It’s based on technical skills, social situations. Not long term population growth.

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        10 months ago

        For me it is the terminology. I thought colonisation was the long term goal of staying more permanently vs a mission which is for a finite period such as this simulation. Had not seen the 28 year limit which makes it more a mission than colonisation. Happy to be corrected.

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          10 months ago

          yeah, but then the headline would not be so clickbaity and attracted less clicks than this “new alabama” suggestion. what are you not getting there? it wasn’t mistake 😂

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        10 months ago

        Only the purest bloodlines. Bloodlines so pure that they couldn’t find a spec of unpure blood in Uncle Daddy during his last battery of genetic testing to determine why we all have blue skin and an allergy to calcium.

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      10 months ago

      None of the above. New colonists were randomly generated by the environment for a 28 year simulation.