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What’s the Bare Minimum Number of People for a Mars Habitat?
(www.universetoday.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
“In the end, they determined that a minimum colony population of 22 agents was ideal to maintain a feasible Mars mining colony over the long-term.”
Until one of them is The Thing.
I always confused "The Thing" with the character from Fantastic Four. And never understood why people were afraid of a rock person who shouts "It's clobbering time!"
because they do not wish to be clobbered
You can get it down to 21 if you call Black Jack.