Repopulating the earth...

[Wolfgang]

If we were given only 20 - 50 people... about 10 - 25 pairs of male female pairs, would we be able to repopulate the earth? About how many people would be born after 1000 years? Would we recover our human greatness? Or would be die off and just become another footnote to the death of earth?

 

[$t3v0]

Too risky. We'd probably die out as naturally these 25 people would stay in close proximity. If one of them gets sick then they all get sick, no doctor around to help. Who would deliver the babies? And how would they prevent infection during labour?

Human beings today rely far too much on central heating and drug-store products. Over time our bodies have come to adapt to what we do and without them we'd suffer. Sure, over a good amount of time our bodies would naturally evolve (slightly) back to the good old ways, but could the mentality and of that person withstand the sudden changes in their lives.

Wrote this at 10:43am after going to bed at 4am. I was trying to make a point but probably didn't do a very good job.

 

[Wolfgang]

Fine, then just mathimatically, how many people could we have if those 10 - 15 couples had four kids and all those kids had four kids when they grew up. Just numbers.

 

[mawk]

"just numbers" is a poor premise for a discussion, I suggest you rethink.

 

[Venetia]

25 pairs of people originally, each couple miraculously giving birth to 4 children each. This makes 100 people by Generation 2.

Totally assuming that there would be no infertile people ever, and assuming that incest is ok (since that would dwindle the numbers of compatible non-incestual couplings SIGNIFICANTLY by generation 3 or 4), and assuming everyone has children at roughly the same age at roughly the same time in their generation, and assuming that none of these kids die, and assuming every person dies at the age of, say, 60 ...

bleh I don't have time for these numbers!!!

Anyway all it'd be is a lot of useless and impossible assumptions, paired with exponents, while subtracting the dead. And the numbers REALLY wouldn't explode that much, as mortality strikes anyone at any moment, and lots of people aren't that fertile, etc. etc.

It's a useless discussion really

 

[moog]

idg this thread at all

where is the discussion :?

 

[Wolfgang]

The discussion comes in after we get the numbers. After we figure out what the repopulated world would be like in 1000 years. What do you think we would keep? What would we lose, morals, science, religion? If the world had to be repopulated, alot of todays religions and values would be lost, would it they not? What do you think about this? Do you think we are approaching a near total race wipeout with the way the world is going today?

 

[moog]

I see where youre going with this and its interesting how you turned it around gj

I agree with $t3v0 on the numbers part. Not many are going to survive, and if they do not much would take place.

Honestly it would depend. Based on the minimalistic portions of each demographic I doubt most organized religion would stay definite. If something drastic enough were to occur that would wipe out every one but an obscure fraction of the world's populous I doubt faith would still be in tact. Anarchy would be law etc or whatever the cliche is when these hypotheticals are questioned.

The human race isnt going to dissolve anytime soon unless something REVOLUTIONARY happened, which I doubt will. Some shit might happen in the next hundreds of years, but we will be dead by then so what's really to wonder?

Forgive me if Im going too deep into this. Maybe this topic would be better suited for the Symposium? (just trying to save this from luring out shitty posts)

 

[Mega Flare]

couldnt happen. everyone later on will be born with a lot of problems and we will just die out

 

[moog]

The main problem here is that you arent being very realistic. 20-50 isnt even enough to fill up part of an obscure town.

10,000-20,000 would probably be more ideal, even then it might be the basis of possibly repopulating the surrounding areas

 

[Guest]

;D

 

[benos]

Don't forget Incest. :devil: :blank:

 

[Feldschlacht IV]

Man why are your always making these weird ass pseudoscientific topics that make no sense?

 

[Surmuck]

This topic is just gradually becoming more shit, so I'm just going to be the bitchy mod that I am and lock it.

For the sake of why: 6 of the replies in this topic have at some point suggested that it's just a dumb thing to even discuss. That's a little less than half, plus this post. Wolfgang, I agree with Feldschalcht IV - think our your threads before you make them in the future for a better response.

Lockins.