From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lcrocker@mercury.colossus.net)
Date: Fri Mar 26 1999 - 18:00:33 MST
>> To sustain an industrial civilization you need a
>> population of hundreds of thousands of specialists.
Even if that's true (and in the age of the Internet,
that's far from certain), you don't have to transport
the whole civilization at once--you can create it from
scratch in a century or two starting with, say, 30
or 40 young, healthy, genetically diverse women and
a big dewar of sperm. For the first few generations
you only need enough technology to survive, breed,
and educate.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lcrocker.html> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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