A team of computational social scientists at George Mason University has found via simulations that 22 people is the minimum number needed to start a human colony on Mars. The group has posted a paper describing their simulation on the arXiv preprint server.
@ApeNo1 @throws_lemy Genetic variation is not an issue. Just send frozen embryos.
They are probably going to be all cis women, anyway (we are the smaller ones consuming less resources).
Nah, we’ll just build a bigger spaceship so we can send 22 penis on mars.