Theoretical, Science Fiction Question

[ColtHandorf]

@3KillerBs - How did this turnout?

 

[3KillerBs]

@3KillerBs - How did this turnout?

Sadly, I had just about gotten a good start when a hard drive crash wiped everything out -- on the morning of the day I was going to do a backup.

DH had bought the CD-Writables the evening before and my writing was going to be the very first thing I saved.

 

[ColtHandorf]

Sadly, I had just about gotten a good start when a hard drive crash wiped everything out -- on the morning of the day I was going to do a backup.

DH had bought the CD-Writables the evening before and my writing was going to be the very first thing I saved.

OMG, that is the absolute worst! I hate it when that happens.

 

[3KillerBs]

OMG, that is the absolute worst! I hate it when that happens.

No, the worst was that I lost the digital baby pictures for my youngest son.

It adds insult to injury that we'd just bought the CDs -- planning a routine backup before an upgrade.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

If you were taking chickens to the stars as farm animals on new colony planets how many of a given breed would serve to make a sound foundation stock that can be bred indefinitely without serious genetic issues cropping up.

Also, if a disaster happened, what would be the absolute minimum necessary to save the breed?

I'm writing a SF story for National Novel Writing Month www.nanowrimo.org and its going to be a sort of Swiss Family Robinson in space thing with lots of farm life on a new planet stuff. I'm trying to figure out how many animals to put on the ship.

Well, supposedly hookbills at one point only had like 15 left in their breed.

I would say 100 (50-50 or 70-30 depending on how you prefer to breed) for foundation stock, since it's very, very possible that you will lose some due to health or environmental issues

 

[ColtHandorf]

No, the worst was that I lost the digital baby pictures for my youngest son.

It adds insult to injury that we'd just bought the CDs -- planning a routine backup before an upgrade.

That sucks a lot too! As a professional writer, I feel losing all your work though.

 

[3KillerBs]

That sucks a lot too! As a professional writer, I feel losing all your work though.

Of course this was back before cheap, easily available storage.

 

[Kiki]

Of course this was back before cheap, easily available storage.

Did you know you can upload and store a boat load of pictures to Google Photos for free?


It took me four years to fill up my free storage and I take hundreds of pics a day.

 

[3KillerBs]

Did you know you can upload and store a boat load of pictures to Google Photos for free?


It took me four years to fill up my free storage and I take hundreds of pics a day.

Yes, but this happened over a decade ago.

All our photos are now backed up on flash drives.

 

[MTKitty]

I've seen a breeding plan for sheep designed for small flocks that allowed genetic diversity with three rams and 9-12 or so ewes.