Only 100 people would probably doom the species due to lack of genetic diversity or a disease. The only chance for their survival would be a coordinated "breeding" campaign using strict genetic selection and probably go as far as to coordinate contact between individuals in order to properly manage the spread of disease (you want to encourage some virii to spread).
What if Earth's population was only 100?
by FlyingHighNow 69 Replies latest jw friends
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N.drew
It's hypothetical Jeesh
Assigning buddies regularly would be a must as it won't I mean wouldn't be long before someone or other will feel left out.
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Band on the Run
There are discussions of how large the population would need to be to sustain itself. The gene pool may be too small. Of course, the 100 were selected on a world wide basis. I was struck by how few would be white and Christian. It is easy to forgot about the majority of the world sitting in the U.S.
Genesis makes no sense. Even as a young child, I knew incest was wrong. Yet who else were they to marry? Anthropology 101 would teach that trade
systems with out of family members should exist. The whole first family sounds very dysfunctional. Cain and Abel. --murder in only the second generation.
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FlyingHighNow
Don't you think they need universal health care, ya'll?
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JeffT
Don't you think they need universal health care, ya'll?
Not possible with that population. There are dozens, maybe hundreds of medical specialties.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specialty_(medicine)
I hope the one person with a college degree studied something useful, although they will not have been able to study everything. Without engineers etc you won't have flush toilets or electricity anywhere. Probably nobody will live in a house.
Move somewhere warm because you'll live like hunter-gatherers.
Somewhere I read that 80 people will provide sufficient genetic diversity. I'm with Beks, its time to reproduce, and don't worry too much about the HIV, you'll probably starve or get eaten by a saber-toothed tiger or something before you have to worry about it.
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FlyingHighNow
Not possible with that population.
Very possible. The one college degree could be a medical doctorate degree and they could exchange eggs, brussel sprouts and home made boots for the care. No citizen would be denied care because with 100 people, you don't need to lose anyone.
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FlyingHighNow
bttt
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JeffT
FHN, means of payment isn't the problem. One person can't hold that much information, eventually somebody is going to need a cardiac surgeon and all you have is an OB/GYN or vice versa. (My brother, an internist, says that the most terrifying medicine he's ever had to do involved delivering babies)
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FlyingHighNow
Jeff, if there are only 100 people...
If there is a doctor...
The people will have to get only the care this one doctor can give. Universal means they all have access to this doctor's care: no one is denied. Doctors could not always do what they do today. Relatively a short time ago, they were debating whether micro-orgamisms cause disease. But the doctors could set bones, sew people up, perform some surgeries, deliver babies, treat a lot of illnesses.
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littlerockguy
Universal means they all have access to this doctor's care, which you may be put on a long schedule. No one is denied, unless they die before getting seen.