On: Sad Trombone Exoplanet Reality Check

[DanBC]

How many settlers? 1,000? 10,000? 100,000?

Would you launch adults (average weight about 70 kg) or children?

[Symmetry → DanBC]

A founder population of 1,000 wouldn't be unprecendented.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_bottleneck#Humans

The real problem is that an individual can only learn so much and 1,000 can't support the skills needed to run something like a modern civilization.

[Pxtl → Symmetry]

The first and possibly only settlers will be AIs.

The scientific breakthroughs needed to make an interstellar spaceship are so far away that we must assume they'll be post-singularity tech.