All this talk about oars and boats reminds me of Mark Twain's - The Great Revolution in Pitcairn of if you don't like reading, you can listen to it here.
At the time of its writing, there were reportedly 90 people on the island. They haven't produced any laptops yet but we can monitor their progress. Hmmm... Not so promising
Here's an excerpt from the essay:
...Moreover, the relationships are wonderfully, even astoundingly, mixed up and complicated. A stranger, for instance, says to an islander:
"You speak of that young woman as your cousin; a while ago you called her your aunt."
"Well, she is my aunt, and my cousin, too. And also my stepsister, my niece, my fourth cousin, my thirty-third cousin, my forty-second cousin, my great-aunt, my grandmother, my widowed sister-in-law--and next week she will be my wife."
This excerpt combined with the factual information about Pitcairn Island leads me to wonder if 100 people will allow for enough genetic diversity to carry the colony far enough into the future to develop anything high tech.
At the time of its writing, there were reportedly 90 people on the island. They haven't produced any laptops yet but we can monitor their progress. Hmmm... Not so promising
Here's an excerpt from the essay:
...Moreover, the relationships are wonderfully, even astoundingly, mixed up and complicated. A stranger, for instance, says to an islander:
"You speak of that young woman as your cousin; a while ago you called her your aunt."
"Well, she is my aunt, and my cousin, too. And also my stepsister, my niece, my fourth cousin, my thirty-third cousin, my forty-second cousin, my great-aunt, my grandmother, my widowed sister-in-law--and next week she will be my wife."
This excerpt combined with the factual information about Pitcairn Island leads me to wonder if 100 people will allow for enough genetic diversity to carry the colony far enough into the future to develop anything high tech.
"Starting with 100 people would surely result in a master race considering all Pakleds are direct descendants of only two of our kind according to the New Pakled Translation of our Bible - Bob O and Alice 1. They made us so to go and look for things take make us go."
Yeah but they needed help to things go. They look for things. Their ship is broken.
