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  • There are different answers depending on the end goal.

    Mere survival: Isolated human populations have been bottlenecked to as few as a few hundred individuals and survived, IIRC.

    A quick search says biologists like to see 25+ breeding pairs to maintain an animal species (if I’m reading that correctly). So 50-100 seems like pretty close to the minimum.

    Long-term colony building with full genetic diversity needs a lot more: At least one estimate is as high as 40,000 people. The high number is for Earth-like diversity in the population, and with no need for any overarching breeding program, so it’s really kind of an outlier scenario. That 40k figure can be pared down significantly if you have strict protocols, or accept some loss of diversity.

    So anywhere from 50 people to 40,000 people, but the end result will look wildly different at the extremes.










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    Seize all electronic devices and scan for logged-in accounts, cookies, browsing history, etc.

    Depending on the severity of the crime (if NSA gets involved, for instance) there are ways to defeat Tor, anyway. They have historically maintained backdoors (technical and human) into most telecom networks, and can always “ask” ISPs for a ton of information on a suspect.