Minimum number of settlers for survival on another planet

Jean-Marc Salotti (1, 2, 3)

1 IMS - Laboratoire de l'intégration, du matériau au système
2 AUCTUS - Augmenting human comfort in the factory using cobots
3 ENSC - Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Cognitique

We address the difficult problem of determining the minimum number of settlers and resources for survival on another planet. A mathematical model is proposed and its parameters are discussed. It is based on an estimation of the average annual time needed for a settler to produce all objects. The main parameters are the number of technologies that have to be mastered, the number of settlers and the sharing factor, which depends on the number of shared objects among the settlers.

Mots clés: Survival; Settlement; Moon; Mars

Domaines: Autre; Autre; Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie

Jean-Marc Salotti. Minimum number of settlers for survival on another planet. 11th IAA Symposium on the Future of Space Exploration Moon, Mars and Beyond: Becoming an Interplanetary Civilization, Jun 2019, Torino, Italy, France. ⟨hal-02162270⟩